CBSE Class 10 English syllabus 📘 2026

CBSE Class 10 English syllabus  📘 2026

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📘 CBSE Class 10 English Syllabus

CBSE Class 10 English is offered in:

• English Language & Literature (184)
  (Most schools follow this)

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1. Prescribed Books

• First Flight (Prose & Poetry)

• Footprints Without Feet (Supplementary Reader)

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📗 First Flight – Prose

1. A Letter to God – G. L. Fuentes

2. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

3. Two Stories About Flying

   • His First Flight – Liam O’Flaherty

   • The Black Aeroplane – Frederick Forsyth

4. From the Diary of Anne Frank

5. The Hundred Dresses – I – Eleanor Estes

6. The Hundred Dresses – II – Eleanor Estes

7. Glimpses of India

   • A Baker from Goa

   • Coorg

   • Tea from Assam

8. Mijbil the Otter – Gavin Maxwell

9. Madam Rides the Bus – Vallikkannan

10. The Sermon at Benares

11. The Proposal – Anton Chekhov (Drama)

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📜 First Flight – Poetry

1. Dust of Snow – Robert Frost

2. Fire and Ice – Robert Frost

3. A Tiger in the Zoo – Leslie Norris

4. How to Tell Wild Animals – Carolyn Wells

5. The Ball Poem – John Berryman

6. Amanda! – Robin Klein

7. Animals – Walt Whitman

8. The Trees – Adrienne Rich

9. Fog – Carl Sandburg

10. The Tale of Custard the Dragon – Ogden Nash

11. For Anne Gregory – William Butler Yeats

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📙 Footprints Without Feet – Supplementary Reader

1. A Triumph of Surgery – James Herriot

2. The Thief’s Story – Ruskin Bond

3. The Midnight Visitor – Robert Arthur

4. A Question of Trust – Victor Canning

5. Footprints Without Feet – H. G. Wells

6. The Making of a Scientist – Robert W. Peterson

7. The Necklace – Guy de Maupassant

8. The Hack Driver – Sinclair Lewis

9. Bholi – K. A. Abbas

10. The Book That Saved the Earth – Claire Boiko

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✍️ Writing Skills

• Letter writing (formal)

• Analytical paragraph

• Article writing

• Story writing

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🧠 Grammar

• Tenses

• Modals

• Subject–verb agreement

• Reported speech

• Active & passive voice

• Determiners

• Editing & omission

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📖 Reading Skills

• Unseen factual passage

• Unseen literary passage

• Case-based comprehension

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