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CBSE Syllabus for Class 5 English 2025-2026

CBSE Class 5 English Syllabus 

For the academic year 2024-2025, the CBSE English syllabus comprises all of the major chapters for Class 5 pupils to study. Class 5 students should go over the complete English CBSE syllabus in order to get good grades and feel confident while studying for their exams. All of the chapters in the Class 5 English syllabus equip pupils with a fundamental understanding of the English language.

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CBSE Syllabus Class 5 English Chapters List

The CBSE syllabus for Class 5 English for the academic year 2024-2025 includes chapters that simplify and ease learning. Following are the chapters from the NCERT Class 4 English Textbook:

Chapter No Chapter Name
Chapter 1 Ice-cream Man
Chapter 2 Story: Wonderful Waste
Chapter 3 Team Work
Chapter 4 Flying Together
Chapter 5 My Shadow
Chapter 6 Robinson Crusoe Discovers a Footprint
Chapter 7 Crying
Chapter 8 My Elder brother
Chapter 9 The Lazy Frog
Chapter 10 Rip Van Winkle
Chapter 11 Class Discussion
Chapter 12 The Talkative Barber
Chapter 13 Topsy-turvy Land
Chapter 14 Gulliver Travels
Chapter 15 Nobody’s Friend
Chapter 16 The Little Bully
Chapter 17 Sing a Song of People
Chapter 18 Around the World
Chapter 19 Malu Bhalu
Chapter 20 Who Will be Ningthou?

Objectives

The general objectives at Level -II are:

  • to provide print-rich environment to relate oracy with literacy.
  • to build on learners’ readiness for reading and writing.
  • to promote learners’ conceptualisation of printed texts in terms of headings, paragraphs and horizontal lines.
  • to enrich learners’ vocabulary mainly through telling, retelling and reading aloud of stories/folktales in English.
  • to use appropriate spoken and written language in meaningful contexts/situations.
  • to give them an opportunity to listen to sounds/sound techniques and appreciate the rhythm and music of rhymes/sounds.
  • to enable them to relate words (mainly in poems) with appropriate actions and thereby provide understanding of the language.
  • to familiarize learners with the basic process of writing.

At the end of this stage learners will be able to do the following:

  • narrate his/her experiences and incidents
  • exchange his/her ideas with the peers
  • carry out a brief conversation involving seeking/giving information
  • enjoy reading a story, poem, a short write-up, a notice, poster etc
  • take dictation of simple sentences and practise copywriting from the blackboard and textbook and to use common punctuation marks
  • write a short description of a person, thing or place – prepare a notice, or write a message for someone
  • write a short composition based on pictures
  • take part in a group activity, role play, and dramatization
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