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Class 9 Syllabus 2022-23 English

The Central Board of Secondary Education recently announced the exam pattern of CBSE Exam 2023 and released the CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2023 on its official website. The students must refer to the CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2023 to ace the CBSE Class 9 Exam 2023. To crack any exam syllabus is the prerequisite, and English is a subject which can improve your result because it is one of the scoring and easy subject. The students studying in Class 9 of CBSE must refer to the CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2023 given here and bookmark this page to get all the latest updates from the Central Board of Secondary Education.

English Class 9 Syllabus 2022-23: Structure

The CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2023 is divided into three sections. Section A consists of Reading Skills, Section B consists of Writing Skills with Grammar, and Section C consists of Literature Textbooks and Supplementary Reading Text. Below we have given the mark distribution of each of the sections. Check out the below table for more information regarding CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2023:

Sections	Competencies	Total marks
Reading Comprehension	Conceptual understanding, decoding, analyzing, inferring, interpreting and vocabulary	20
Writing Skill and Grammar	Creative expression of an opinion, reasoning, justifying, illustrating, appropriacy of style and tone, using appropriate format and fluency. Applyingconventions, using integrated structures with accuracy and fluency	20
Language Through Literature	Recalling, reasoning, appreciating, applying literary conventions illustrating and justifying etc. Extract relevant information, identifying the central theme and sub-theme, understanding the writers’ message and writing fluently	40
Total		80

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CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2022-23: NCERT Section wise

Refer to the section-wise CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2023 given below and ace your CBSE Class 9 Exam 2023.

CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2022-23 Section A: Reading Skills

Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage

I. Discursive passage of 400-450 words. (10 marks)

II. Case-based passage (with visual input- statistical data, chart etc.) of 200-250 words.(Total length of two passages to be 600-700 words)

Multiple Choice Questions / Objective Type Questions will be asked to assess inference, analysis, interpretation,
evaluation and vocabulary.

CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2022-23 Section B: Writing Skills with Grammar

III Grammar

Tenses
Modals
Subject – verb concord
Reported speech
Commands and requests
Statements
Questions
Determiners

The courses at the secondary level seek to cement high professional grasp of grammatical items and levels of accuracy. Accurate use of spelling, punctuation and grammar will be assessed through Gap Filling/ Editing/Transformation exercises. Ten out of 12 questions will be attempted.

IV Creative Writing Skills

This section will have short as well as long writing tasks including compositions.

I. Writing a Descriptive Paragraph (word limit 100-120 words) on a person/event/situation based on visual or verbal cue/s. One out of two questions is to be answered.

II. Writing a Diary Entry/ Story on a given title in 100-120 words. One out of two questions is to be answered.

CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2022-23 Section C: Literature Textbooks and Supplementary Reading Text

V. Reference to the Context

I. One extract out of two from Drama / Prose.

II. One extract out of two from poetry.

Multiple Choice Questions / Objective Type Questions will be asked to assess inference, analysis, interpretation, evaluation and vocabulary.

VI. Short & Long Answer Questions

I. Four out of Five Short Answer Type Questions to be answered in 40-50 words from the book BEEHIVE.

II. Two out of Three Short Answer Type Questions to be answered in 40-50 words from the book MOMENTS

III. One out of two Long Answer Type Questions from BEEHIVE to be answered in about 100-120 words to assess creativity, imagination and extrapolation beyond the text and across the texts. This can also be a passage-based question taken from a situation/plot from the texts.

IV. One out of two Long Answer Type Questions from MOMENTS on theme or plot involving interpretation, extrapolation beyond the text and inference or character sketch to be answered in about 100-120 words.

Class 9 CBSE English Syllabus 2022-23: NCERT Syllabus Books

Beehive

Prose	Poems	Moments
1. The Fun They Had 2. The Sound of Music 3. The Little Girl 4. A Truly Beautiful Mind 5. The Snake and the Mirror 6. My Childhood 7. Reach For The Top 8. Kathmandu 9. If I were You	1. The Road Not taken 2. Wind 3. Rain on The Roof 4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree 5. A Legend of The Northland 6. No Men Are Foreign 7. On killing a tree 8. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	1. The Lost Child 2. The adventures of Toto 3. Iswaran the Storyteller 4. In the kingdom of fools 5. The Happy Prince 6. The Last Leaf 7. A House is not a Home 8. The Beggar

3. WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS – II (WORKBOOK FOR CLASS X) – Units 1 to 6 and Units 8, 10 & 11

Note: Teachers are advised to:

(i) encourage classroom interaction among peers, students and teachers through activities such as role play, group work etc.

(ii) reduce teacher-talk time and keep it to the minimum,

(iii) take up questions for discussion to encourage pupils to participate and to marshal their ideas and express and defend their views.

Besides measuring learning outcome, texts serve the dual purpose of diagnosing mistakes and areas of non-learning. To make evaluation a true index of learners’ knowledge, each language skill is to be assessed through a judicious mixture of different types of questions.

CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2022-23 Guidelines for Assessment of Listening and Speaking Skills

ALS is a component of the Subject Enrichment Activity under Internal Assessment. ALS must be seen as an integrated component of all four language skills rather than a compartment of two. Suggested activities, therefore, take into consideration an integration of the four language skills but during assessment, emphasis will be given to speaking and listening, since reading and writing are already being assessed in the written exam.

Assessment of Listening and Speaking Skills:

i. Activities:

Subject teachers must refer to books prescribed in the syllabus.
In addition to the above, teachers may plan their own activities and create their own material for assessing the listening and speaking skills.

ii. Parameters for Assessment: The listening and speaking skills are to be assessed on the following parameters:

a. Interactive competence (Initiation & turn taking, relevance to the topic)

b. Fluency (cohesion, coherence and speed of delivery)

c. Pronunciation

d. Language (grammar and vocabulary)

A suggestive rubric is given below:

S. No.	Interaction	Pronunciation
1.	Contributions are mainly unrelated to those of other speakers Shows hardly any initiative in the development of conversation Very limited interaction	Insufficient accuracy in pronunciation; many grammatical errors Communication is severely affected
2.	Contributions are often unrelated to those of the other speaker Generally passive in the development of conversation	Frequently unintelligible articulation Frequent phonological errors Major communication problems
3.	Develops interaction adequately, makes however minimal effort to initiate conversation Needs constant prompting to take turns	Largely correct pronunciation & clear articulation except occasional errors Some expressions cause stress without compromising with understanding of spoken discourse.
4.	Interaction is adequately initiated and develop Can take turn but needs little prompting	Mostly correct pronunciation & clear articulation Can be clearly understood most of the time; very few phonological errors
5.	Can initiate & logically develop simple conversation on familiar topics Can take turns appropriately	Can pronounce correctly & articulate clearly Is always comprehensible ; uses appropriate intonation
S. No.	Fluency & Coherence	Vocabulary & Grammar
1.	Noticeably/ long pauses; rate of Speech is slow Frequent repetition and/or self- correction Links only basic sentences; breakdown of coherence evident	Demonstrates almost no flexibility, and mostly struggles for appropriate words Uses very basic vocabulary to express viewpoints.
2.	Usually fluent; produces simple speech fluently, but loses coherence in complex communication Often hesitates and/or resorts to slow speech Topics partly developed; not always concluded logically	Communicates with limited flexibility and appropriacy on some of the topics Complex forms and sentence structures are rare; exhibits limited vocabulary to express new ideas
3.	Is willing to speak at length, however repetition is noticeable Hesitates and/or self corrects; occasionally loses coherence Topics mainly developed, but usually not logically concluded	Communicate s with limited flexibility and appropriacy on most of the topics Sometimes uses complex forms and sentence structures; has limited vocabulary to describe/ express new points
4.	Speaks without noticeable effort, with a little repetition Demonstrates hesitation to find words or use correct grammatical structures and/or selfcorrection Topics not fully developed to merit	Can express with some flexibility and appropriacy on most of the topics Demonstrates ability to use complex forms and sentence structures most of the time; expresses with adequate vocabulary
5.	Speaks fluently almost with no repetition & minimal hesitation Develops topic fully & coherently	Can express with some flexibility and appropriacy on a variety of topics such as family, hobbies, work, travel and current events Frequently uses complex forms and sentence structures; has enough vocabulary to express himself/ herself

iii. Schedule:

The practice of listening and speaking skills should be done throughout the academic year.
The final assessment of the skills is to be done as per the convenience and schedule of the school.

CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2023- FAQs

Q. Will CBSE conduct CBSE Class 9 Exam 2023 annually?

Yes, CBSE has recently announced that from the next session CBSE will conduct annual board exams.

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Q. What is the CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2023?

The CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2023 is divided into three sections. All three section covers Reading Skills, Writing Skills with Grammar, Literature Textbooks and Supplementary Reading Text. To get a detailed CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus 2023 visit this page.