| CBSE Class 10 English Syllabus Reading Comprehension |
| Discursive passage | 400-450 words |
| Case-study passage | 300-350 words |
| CBSE Class 10 English Syllabus for Creative Writing |
| 1 | Analytical Paragraph |
| 2 | Formal Letter |
| CBSE Class 10 English Syllabus Grammar |
| 1 | Tenses |
| 2 | Subject |
| 3 | Modals |
| 4 | Verb concord |
| 5 | Reported speech |
| 6 | Commands and requests |
| 7 | Statements |
| 8 | Determiners |
1. First Flight – Prose
| S. No. | Chapter Title | Author |
| 1 | A Letter to God | G.L. Fuentes |
| 2 | Nelson Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela |
| 3 | Two Stories About Flying (His First Flight & Black Aeroplane) | Liam O’Flaherty & Frederick Forsyth |
| 4 | From the Diary of Anne Frank | Anne Frank |
| 5 | Glimpses of India (A Baker from Goa, Coorg, Tea from Assam) | Lucio Rodrigues, Lokesh Abrol, Arup Kumar Datta |
| 6 | Mijbil the Otter | Gavin Maxwell |
| 7 | Madam Rides the Bus | Vallikkannan |
| 8 | The Sermon at Benares | Based on Gautama Buddha’s Teachings |
| 9 | The Proposal (Play) | Anton Chekhov |
2. First Flight – Poems
| S. No. | Poem Title | Poet |
| 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 | The Trees | Adrienne Rich |
| 8 | Fog | Carl Sandburg |
| 9 | The Tale of Custard the Dragon | Ogden Nash |
| 10 | For Anne Gregory | W.B. Yeats |
3. Footprints Without Feet – Supplementary Reader
| S. No. | Story Title | Author |
| 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 | Bholi | K.A. Abbas |
| 9 | The Book That Saved the Earth | Claire Boiko |
