CBSE Class 9 detailed syllabus for English

CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus (2025-26)

Section A: Reading Skills

  1. Unseen Passages
    • Factual Passages: To develop the ability to understand and process factual information.
    • Discursive Passages: To engage with content that offers different viewpoints on a topic.
    • Literary Passages: To appreciate and critically analyze literary works.

Section B: Writing Skills with Grammar

  1. Writing

    • Descriptive Paragraph: Writing based on visual or verbal cues.
    • Diary Entry: Writing a personal entry based on a specific situation or event.
    • Story Writing: Crafting a story using given prompts or based on imagination.
    • Formal Letter Writing:
      • Letter to the Editor
      • Letter of Complaint
      • Letter of Enquiry
      • Letter for Placing Orders and Cancelling Orders
    • Analytical Paragraph: Writing based on data, charts, or graphical representations.

  2. Grammar

    • Tenses: Usage of different tenses in appropriate contexts.
    • Modals: Expressing ability, probability, permission, obligation, etc.
    • Subject-Verb Concord: Agreement of subject with verb.
    • Reported Speech: Converting direct speech into reported speech.
    • Clauses: Understanding and using different types of clauses.
    • Determiners: Proper use of articles, quantifiers, etc.
    • Prepositions: Correct usage of prepositions in sentences.

Section C: Literature Textbooks and Supplementary Reading

  1. Beehive (Textbook in English for Class IX)

    • Prose

      1. The Fun They Had - Isaac Asimov
      2. The Sound of Music - Evelyn Glennie and Bismillah Khan
      3. The Little Girl - Katherine Mansfield
      4. A Truly Beautiful Mind - Albert Einstein’s life
      5. The Snake and the Mirror - Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
      6. My Childhood - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
      7. Packing - Jerome K. Jerome
      8. Reach for the Top - Santosh Yadav and Maria Sharapova
      9. The Bond of Love - Kenneth Anderson
      10. If I Were You - Douglas James

    • Poetry

      1. The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
      2. Wind - Subramania Bharati
      3. Rain on the Roof - Coates Kinney
      4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree - W.B. Yeats
      5. A Legend of the Northland - Phoebe Cary
      6. No Men Are Foreign - James Kirkup
      7. The Duck and the Kangaroo - Edward Lear
      8. On Killing a Tree - Gieve Patel
      9. The Snake Trying - W.W.E. Ross
      10. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal - William Wordsworth

  2. Moments (Supplementary Reader in English for Class IX)

    • Short Stories
      1. The Lost Child - Mulk Raj Anand
      2. The Adventures of Toto - Ruskin Bond
      3. Iswaran the Storyteller - R.K. Laxman
      4. In the Kingdom of Fools - A Kannada folktale
      5. The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde
      6. Weathering the Storm in Ersama - Harsh Mander
      7. The Last Leaf - O. Henry
      8. A House is Not a Home - Zan Gaudioso
      9. The Accidental Tourist - Bill Bryson
      10. The Beggar - Anton Chekhov

 

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