MP Board Class 10 English Syllabus 2026-27

Session

High School (Class 10) examination 2026-27, Board of Secondary Education, Madhya Pradesh.

Section A — Reading

Reading comprehension through two unseen passages (factual, descriptive, literary, or case-based). MCQ/objective items on comprehension, interpretation, inference, and vocabulary.

Section B — Writing

• Note making from a passage
• Formal and informal letter writing
• Long composition (essay / article / paragraph)
• Picture-guided composition

Section C — Grammar

Gap filling; tenses; prepositions; verbs; conjunctions; articles; modals; determiners; voice; sentence transformation; clauses.

Section D — Textbooks

First Flight (2026-27)

#	Topic	Writer	Genre
1	A Letter to God	G L Fuentes	Prose
	Dust of Snow	Robert Frost	Poetry
	Fire and Ice	Robert Frost	Poetry
2	Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom	Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela	Prose
	A Tiger in the Zoo	Leslie Norris	Poetry
3	Two Stories about Flying: His First Flight	Liam O’Flaherty	Prose
	Black Aeroplane	Frederic Forsyth	Prose
	How to Tell Wild Animals	Carolyn Wells	Poetry
	The Ball Poem	John Berryman	Poetry
4	From the Diary of Anne Frank	Anne Frank	Prose
	Amanda	Robin Klein	Poetry
5	Glimpses of India: A Baker from Goa	Lucio Rodrigues	Prose
	Coorg	Lokesh Abrol	Prose
	Tea from Assam	Arup Kumar Datta	Prose
	The Trees	Adrienne Rich	Poetry
6	Mijbil the Otter	Gavin Maxwell	Prose
	Fog	Carl Sandburg	Poetry
7	Madam Rides the Bus	Vallikkannan	Prose
	The Tale of Custard the Dragon	Ogden Nash	Poetry
8	The Sermon at Benares		Prose
	For Anne Gregory	William Butler Yeats	Poetry
9	The Proposal	Anton Chekov	Drama

Footprints without Feet (2026-27)

#	Topic	Writer
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