Assam Board Class 10 English Syllabus 2026-27

Session

Matric (Class 10), Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA). Prescribed reader: First Flight (NCERT, adopted by SEBA). Supplementary reader: Footprints without Feet.

Prose (First Flight)

1. A Letter to God — G.L. Fuentes
2. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
3. Two Stories about Flying (His First Flight; Black Aeroplane)
4. From the Diary of Anne Frank
5. The Hundred Dresses — I
6. The Hundred Dresses — II
7. Glimpses of India (A Baker from Goa; Coorg; Tea from Assam)
8. Mijbil the Otter
9. Madam Rides the Bus
10. The Sermon at Benares
11. The Proposal — Anton Chekhov

Poetry (First Flight)

Dust of Snow; Fire and Ice; A Tiger in the Zoo; How to Tell Wild Animals; The Ball Poem; Amanda!; Animals; The Trees; Fog; The Tale of Custard the Dragon; For Anne Gregory.

Skills

Reading comprehension, vocabulary and grammar in context, oral comprehension checks, thinking about the text, and writing tasks (formal/informal letters, reports, creative responses) as integrated in the prescribed textbook units.

Prescribed textbooks published by Assam State Textbook Production and Publication Corporation on behalf of Government of Assam (free distribution).