Context Clues Practice: Understand Unfamiliar Words While Reading
Knowing the rule is useful, but improvement comes from noticing the errors you make repeatedly. This lesson uses common mistakes to help you build…
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Skimming and Scanning: Two Fast Reading Strategies
Skimming helps you understand the general idea of a text quickly, while scanning helps you locate a specific piece of information. This lesson focuses…
Read lesson →Skimming and Scanning Practice: Read Faster with a Clear Purpose
Knowing the rule is useful, but improvement comes from noticing the errors you make repeatedly. This lesson uses common mistakes to help you build…
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Writer's Purpose, Tone and Attitude
Learn to identify why a writer is communicating and how tone and attitude shape meaning.
Text Structure and Cohesion
Learn how paragraphs, linking devices, reference, and organization create a coherent text.
Reference and Cohesive Devices
Learn how pronouns, substitution, repetition, and linking expressions connect information across a text.
Summarizing and Synthesis
Learn to identify essential information, summarize accurately, and combine ideas across texts.
Argument, Evidence and Fact vs Opinion
Learn to distinguish claims, evidence, reasons, assumptions, facts, and opinions in English texts.
Main Idea
Learn how to identify the central idea and overall purpose of an English text.
Detail
Learn how to locate and understand specific information and supporting details in English texts.
Inference
Learn how to infer meaning and conclusions from information that is implied rather than directly stated.
Vocabulary in Context
Learn how to work out the meaning of unfamiliar English words from surrounding context.
Skimming and Scanning
Learn how to read quickly for general meaning and search efficiently for specific information.
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