Download How I Taught My Grandmother to Read – NCERT Class 9 English Chapter 1 PDF from the new NCERT Class 9 English book Kaveri (2026-27). Read the chapter online or download the free PDF. How I Taught My Grandmother to Read (story): the narrator, aged twelve, reads the serial Kashi Yatre to her grandmother, Krishtakka, who never went to school.
How I Taught My Grandmother to Read PDF – Chapter 1 of Kaveri
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| Chapter | Download | |
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| Chapter 1 PDF | How I Taught My Grandmother to Read | View PDF |
| Full book | NCERT Class 9 English – Kaveri | View Book |
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What Is in How I Taught My Grandmother to Read? (Class 9 English Chapter 1)
- How I Taught My Grandmother to Read (story): the narrator, aged twelve, reads the serial Kashi Yatre to her grandmother, Krishtakka, who never went to school.
- When the narrator is away for a week, Avva cannot read the new episode and feels helpless; she decides to learn to read by Saraswati Puja, because “for learning there is no age bar”.
- The narrator becomes her first teacher. On Dassara, Avva touches her teacher’s feet and reads the title of her gift herself, proving she has succeeded.
- Bharat Our Land (poem, Subramania Bharati): an ode praising India’s Himavant, Ganga, Upanishads, warriors, sages, Brahma-knowledge and the Buddha’s dhamma, with the refrain “she’s peerless, let’s praise her!”
- Language work: binomials, prefixes, idioms of learning, past perfect and simple past, suffixes; writing a letter to the editor and a descriptive paragraph.
Quick revision – How I Taught My Grandmother to Read
| Text | Type | Key idea |
|---|---|---|
| How I Taught My Grandmother to Read (Sudha Murty) | Story | A sixty-two-year-old grandmother learns to read so she need not depend on others: for learning there is no age bar. |
| Bharat Our Land (Subramania Bharati) | Poem | An ode to India’s mountains, rivers, scriptures, heroes, sages and ancient wisdom; the refrain says she is peerless. |
Old NCERT vs New – Class 9 English
This chapter is from Kaveri, the new NCERT Class 9 English book (NCF-SE 2023, used from 2026-27). It replaced the old book “Beehive and Moments”, so chapter numbers and names differ from older PDFs.
Solutions and All Chapters
Answers to the exercises and the full chapter list of Kaveri:
How I Taught My Grandmother to Read – Overview
| Class | Class 9 |
| Subject | English |
| Book | Kaveri – new NCERT book |
| Chapter | 1 of 7 – How I Taught My Grandmother to Read |
| Book pages | 1 – 32 |
| Edition | Latest NCERT edition (2026-27) |
| Session | 2026-27 |
| Free – read online or download |
Class 9 English Chapter 1 – FAQs
Where can I download How I Taught My Grandmother to Read Class 9 PDF?
From the download table on this page – the chapter PDF is free, and the full book is linked too.
What is Class 9 English Chapter 1 about?
How I Taught My Grandmother to Read (story): the narrator, aged twelve, reads the serial Kashi Yatre to her grandmother, Krishtakka, who never went to school.
Is How I Taught My Grandmother to Read from the new NCERT Class 9 English book?
Yes. It is chapter 1 of kaveri, the new NCERT Class 9 English book for 2026-27.
Is this the latest NCERT edition for 2026-27?
Yes – the PDF is NCERT’s latest edition for the 2026-27 session.
Where are the NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Chapter 1?
Open the NCERT Solutions link above for answers to the exercise questions.