WB Board Class 9 English syllabus 2026

WB Board Class 9 English syllabus 

📘 Class 9 English – WBBSE Syllabus

1. Textbook Lessons

Prose (Stories / Passages)

1. Tales of Bhola Grandpa – Manoj Das

2. All About a Dog – A. G. Gardiner

3. A Day in the Zoo – Gerald Durrell

4. Tom Loses a Tooth – Mark Twain

5. His First Flight – Liam O’Flaherty

6. The Price of Bananas – Mulk Raj Anand

7. A Shipwrecked Sailor – Daniel Defoe

8. All Summer in a Day – Ray Bradbury

Poetry

1. Autumn – John Clare

2. Mild the Mist upon the Hill – Emily Jane Brontë

3. The North Ship – Philip Larkin

4. Hunting Snake – Judith Wright

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2. Reading Skills

• Seen reading comprehension

• Unseen passages

• Understanding, interpreting, and answering questions

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3. Writing Skills

• Formal and informal letters

• Paragraphs and essays

• Notices and reports

• Descriptive and creative writing

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4. Grammar & Vocabulary

• Parts of speech

• Sentence structure

• Active & passive voice

• Reported speech

• Tenses

• Phrasal verbs and idioms

• Combining sentences

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5. Assessment Pattern

• Reading (seen + unseen passages)

• Prose & poetry questions

• Writing (letters, paragraphs, essays)

• Grammar sections

• Internal oral assessment