ICSE Class 6 English Syllabus – Grammar and Vocabulary in Context

1.Pronouns in the proper case, reflexive pronouns, pronoun number and person, pronoun – antecedent agreement to include indefinite pronouns.

2.Subject-verb agreement with intervening phrases and clauses.

3.Transitive and intransitive verbs.

4.Tenses to convey time, sequence, state, and condition.

5.Recognition of correct and incorrect /inappropriate shifts in verb tense.

6.Vocabulary in context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

7.Age-appropriate affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word.

8.Dictionary and reference materials, print, digital and tactile, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.

9.Figures of speech in context.

ICSE Class 6 English Literature Syllabus – Suggested Reading List

Novels by Gerard Durrell

Malgudi Days – R.K. Narayan

I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai

Detective stories – Agatha Christie

The Lost World – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Happy Prince and Other Tales – Oscar Wilde

Animal Farm – George Orwell

Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbit

Short Stories (O’ Henry/ Saki/ Leo Tolstoy/Rudyard Kipling/ Guy De Maupassant/Mark Twain/ Oscar Wilde/Jorge Luis Borges/William Faulkner/Anton Chekhov/ Edgar Allen Poe/Franz Kafka/Earnest Hemingway /Flannery O’Connor/James Joyce/Ray Bradbury/Roald Dhal/ Nicolai Gogol and Translations from Indian writers like Tagore, Premchand , etc.)

Something Out of nothing

Marie Curie and Radium – Carl Killough

Ignited minds – APJ Kalam

Graphic Novels: Tin Tin Series/ Asterix series