Haryana Board Class 10 English Syllabus 2026-27

Exam scheme

Annual exam on the full syllabus. Written 80, internal assessment 20. Subject code 005.

Internal assessment: two SAT exams (4), half-yearly (2), pre-board (2), classroom participation (2), project (5), attendance (5).

Area	What it covers	Marks
First Flight (prose)	Nine prose lessons	17
First Flight (poetry)	Ten poems	11
Footprints Without Feet	Nine supplementary stories	12
Grammar	Punctuation, articles, tenses, reported speech, modals, sentences, clauses, non-finites, idioms, phrasal verbs, figures of speech	10
Writing	Applications, letters, events, paragraph, story, report, classified advertisement, interviews, conversation	10
Reading	Unseen passages	20

First Flight — prose

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

First Flight — poetry

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

Footprints Without Feet

A Triumph of Surgery; The Thief’s Story; The Midnight Visitor; A Question of Trust; Footprints Without Feet; The Making of a Scientist; The Necklace; Bholi; The Book that Saved the Earth.

The official PDF also has a month-wise teaching plan.