Reading

Reading Comprehension

Writing Skills

Short Compositions

  • Notice
  • Drafting Posters
  • Advertisements
  • Invitation and Replies

Long Compositions

Very Long Compositions

  • Article
  • Debate
  • Speech
  • Report
  • Factual Description

Literature

Prose

The Last Lesson – Alphonse Daudet

Lost Spring – Anees Jung

Deep Water – William Douglas

The Rattrap – Selma Lagerlof

Indigo – Louis Fischer

Going Places – AR Barton

Poetry

My Mother at Sixty-Six – Kamala Das

An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum – Stephen Spender

Keeping Quiet – Pablo Neruda

A Thing of Beauty – John Keats

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers – Adrienne Rich

Supplementary

The Tiger King – Kalki

The Enemy – Pearl S Buck

Should Wizard Hit Mommy – John Updike

On the Face of It – Susan Hill

Evans Tries An O-Level – Colin Dexter

Memories of Childhood

  • The Cutting of My Long Hair – Zitkala-Sa
  • We Too are Human Being – Bama

Novels

Silas Marner

The Invisible Man