CBSE Class 10 English syllabus 📘 2026
📘 CBSE Class 10 English Syllabus
CBSE Class 10 English is offered in:
English Language & Literature (184)
(Most schools follow this)
1. Prescribed Books
First Flight (Prose & Poetry)
Footprints Without Feet (Supplementary Reader)
📗 First Flight – Prose
A Letter to God – G. L. Fuentes
Two Stories About Flying
His First Flight – Liam O’Flaherty
The Black Aeroplane – Frederick Forsyth
The Hundred Dresses – I – Eleanor Estes
The Hundred Dresses – II – Eleanor Estes
Glimpses of India
A Baker from Goa
Coorg
Tea from Assam
Mijbil the Otter – Gavin Maxwell
Madam Rides the Bus – Vallikkannan
The Sermon at Benares
The Proposal – Anton Chekhov (Drama)
📜 First Flight – Poetry
Dust of Snow – Robert Frost
Fire and Ice – Robert Frost
A Tiger in the Zoo – Leslie Norris
How to Tell Wild Animals – Carolyn Wells
The Ball Poem – John Berryman
Amanda! – Robin Klein
Animals – Walt Whitman
The Trees – Adrienne Rich
Fog – Carl Sandburg
The Tale of Custard the Dragon – Ogden Nash
For Anne Gregory – William Butler Yeats
📙 Footprints Without Feet – Supplementary Reader
A Triumph of Surgery – James Herriot
The Thief’s Story – Ruskin Bond
The Midnight Visitor – Robert Arthur
A Question of Trust – Victor Canning
Footprints Without Feet – H. G. Wells
The Making of a Scientist – Robert W. Peterson
The Necklace – Guy de Maupassant
The Hack Driver – Sinclair Lewis
Bholi – K. A. Abbas
The Book That Saved the Earth – Claire Boiko
✍️ Writing Skills
Letter writing (formal)
Analytical paragraph
Article writing
Story writing
🧠 Grammar
Modals
Reported speech
Active & passive voice
Determiners
Editing & omission
📖 Reading Skills
Unseen factual passage
Case-based comprehension