Class 9 English Kaveri Chapter 1 opens with How I Taught My Grandmother to Read by Sudha Murty and pairs it with Bharat Our Land, a poem by Subramania Bharati. Kaveri is the new NCERT English book for Class 9 from 2026-27.
What Is in Class 9 English Kaveri Chapter 1
How I Taught My Grandmother to Read is set in a village in north Karnataka. The narrator, then about twelve, reads the weekly instalment of Triveni’s Kannada serial Kashi Yatre to her grandmother Krishtakka, who never went to school. When the narrator goes away to a wedding and the next episode arrives, her grandmother cannot read it. At sixty-two she decides to learn the Kannada alphabet from her granddaughter, with Saraswati Puja during Dassara as her deadline for reading a novel on her own.
Bharat Our Land by Subramania Bharati praises the land and its antiquity; its warm-up asks you to list the states, mountains and rivers named in the National Anthem.
Activities in This Unit
- Each piece is followed by Check Your Understanding, Vocabulary in Context and grammar, speaking and writing tasks, after a Reflect and Respond warm-up.
Read Class 9 English Chapter 1 Online
More Chapters
- Next: Chapter 2: The Pot Maker
- All English chapters and the other Class 9 books: Class 9 NCERT books 2026-27
FAQ
Who wrote How I Taught My Grandmother to Read?
Sudha Murty. It is the first prose piece in Class 9 English Kaveri.
Which novel did the grandmother listen to?
Kashi Yatre by the Kannada writer Triveni, serialised in the weekly Karmaveera, about an old lady who gives up her savings for her pilgrimage to help an orphan girl marry.