ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
CLASS – X (2025-26)
Marks 80
Sections Competencies Total marks
Conceptual understanding, decoding, analyzing,
Reading inferring, interpreting and vocabulary 20
Comprehension
Creative expression of an opinion, reasoning,
Writing Skills and justifying, illustrating, appropriate style and
Grammar tone, using appropriate format and fluency. 20
Applying conventions, using integrated
structures with accuracy and fluency
Recalling, reasoning, appreciating, applying
Language through literary conventions illustrating and justifying etc.
Literature Extract relevant information, identifying the 40
central theme and sub-theme, understanding
the writers’ message and writing fluently.
Total 80
For the details of Internal Assessment of 20 marks, please refer to thecircular no.
Acad-11/2019, dated March 06, 2019.
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Annexure I
Guidelines for Assessment of Listening and Speaking Skills (ALS)
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: (5 Marks)
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 theirown material for
assessing the listening and speaking skills.
ii. Parameters for Assessment: The listening and speaking skills are to be assessedon 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)
SUGGESTIVE RUBRIC
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Interactio
n Contributions are Contributions are Develops interaction Interaction is Initiates &
mainly unrelated often unrelated to adequately, makes adequately logically
to those of other those of the other however minimal initiated develops simple
speakers speaker effort to initiate and developed conversation on
Shows hardly any Generally conversation Takes turn but familiar topics
initiative in the passive in the Needs constant needs some Takes turns
development of development of prompting to take prompting appropriately
conversation conversation turns
Very limited
interaction
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Noticeably/ long Usually fluent; Is willing to speak at Speaks without Speaks fluently
Fluency & pauses; rate of produces simple length, however noticeable effort, almost with no
Coherence speech is slow speech fluently, repetition is with a little repetition &
Frequent but loses noticeable repetition minimal
repetition and/or coherence in Hesitates and/or self Demonstrates hesitation
self- correction complex corrects; hesitation to find Develops topic
this is all right in communication occasionally loses words or use fully & coherently
informal Often hesitates coherence correct
conversation and/or resorts to Topics developed, grammatical
Links only basic slow speech but usually not structures and/or
sentences; Topics partly logically concluded self- correction
breakdown of developed; not Topics not fully
coherence always concluded developed to
evident. logically merit.
Frequent Frequently Largely correct Mostly correct Pronounces
Pronunciation inaccurate unintelligible pronunciation & pronunciation& correctly &
pronunciation articulation clear articulation clear articulation articulates clearly
Communication Frequent except occasional Is clearly Is always
is severely phonological errors errors understood most comprehensible
affected Major of the time; very uses appropriate
communication few phonological intonation
problems errors
Vocabulary & Demonstrates Is able to Is able to Is able to Is able to
Grammar almost no communicate on communicate on communicate on communicate on
flexibility, and some of the most of the topics, most of the most of the topics
mostly struggles topics, with with limited topics with using a wide range
for appropriate limited vocabulary. appropriate of appropriate
words vocabulary. A few grammatical vocabulary vocabulary, using
Many Frequent errors, errors Minor errors that new words and
Grammatical but self-corrects do not hamper expressions
errors impacting communication No grammatical
communication errors
iii. Schedule:
The practice of listening and speaking skills should be done throughout the academicyear.
The final assessment of the skills is to be done as per the convenience and schedule of the school.
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