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Available Summer 2026
ACT® English Reading
ACT English and Reading equips high‑school students with the grammar, punctuation, and rhetorical analysis skills needed to ace the ACT English and Reading sections, boosting college‑readiness scores.
Who Should Take This
Students preparing for the ACT, especially those aiming for competitive college admissions, benefit from focused practice on grammar conventions and passage analysis. The course is ideal for high‑school juniors and seniors with basic English proficiency who seek to improve accuracy, speed, and rhetorical insight to raise their overall ACT score.
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Lesson Modules
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Exam Tips & Strategy
20 Activity Formats
Course Outline
75 learning goals
1
ACT English
3 topics
Conventions of Standard English
- Sentence Structure and Formation
- Punctuation
- Usage and Grammar
Knowledge of Language
- Identify wordy, redundant, or overly verbose constructions in sentences and recognize which revision achieves the most concise expression without losing meaning.
- Apply principles of precision and concision to select the word or phrase that most accurately and efficiently conveys the intended meaning in a passage context.
- Determine whether the tone and style of a word or phrase are consistent with the overall tone of a passage, selecting replacements that match the established register.
- Analyze how sentence-level syntax choices (such as varying sentence length, using active versus passive voice, or reordering clauses) affect the clarity and rhetorical impact of a passage.
- Evaluate competing word choices to determine which option best achieves the writer's stated purpose, considering connotation, denotation, and audience awareness.
- Interpret how shifts in register (formal to informal or technical to conversational) within a passage affect the reader's engagement and the writer's credibility with the intended audience.
Production of Writing
- Topic Development
- Organization, Unity, and Cohesion
2
ACT Reading
4 topics
Key Ideas and Details
- Explicit Meaning and Textual Evidence
- Central Ideas and Summarization
- Relationships Within Texts
Craft and Structure
- Word Meaning in Context
- Text Structure Analysis
- Author Purpose and Point of View
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- Arguments and Claims
- Comparing Texts and Paired Passages
Passage Type Strategies
- Literary Narrative and Prose Fiction
- Social Science Passages
- Humanities Passages
- Natural Science Passages
Scope
Included Topics
- ACT English section (75 questions, 45 minutes): Production of Writing (29-32%) including topic development, organization, unity, and cohesion; Knowledge of Language (13-19%) including precision, concision, style/tone, and syntax; Conventions of Standard English (51-56%) including sentence structure/formation, punctuation (commas, apostrophes, semicolons, colons, dashes), and usage (subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement, verb tense, modifier placement, parallel structure, word confusion).
- ACT Reading section (40 questions, 35 minutes): Key Ideas and Details (52-60%) including explicit meaning, central ideas, summarization, and relationships (sequential, cause-effect, compare-contrast); Craft and Structure (25-30%) including word meaning in context, text structure analysis, and author purpose/point of view; Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (13-23%) including arguments and claims and comparing texts.
- ACT Reading passage types: literary narrative/prose fiction, social science, humanities, natural science, and paired passages appearing in one of the four passage sets.
- Rhetorical skills tested on ACT English: strategy (topic development, relevance, emphasis), organization (sentence order, transitions, introductions, conclusions), and style (writing style, tone, word choice, economy of language).
- Grammar and mechanics tested on ACT English: sentence structure (run-ons, fragments, misplaced modifiers, parallelism, comma splices), grammar and usage (subject-verb agreement, pronoun-antecedent agreement, pronoun case, verb tense and form, adjective/adverb confusion, idioms), and punctuation (commas in series, commas with nonessential clauses, apostrophes in possessives and contractions, semicolons, colons, dashes, end punctuation).
- Reading comprehension strategies: close reading, annotation, evidence-based reasoning, inference, main idea identification, summarization, vocabulary in context, understanding of text structure, and comparative analysis across paired passages.
Not Covered
- ACT Mathematics, ACT Science, and ACT Writing (optional essay) sections, which are covered in separate domain specifications.
- Advanced literary criticism theories, graduate-level rhetoric and composition, and linguistics beyond what is tested on the ACT.
- Creative writing techniques, journalistic writing conventions, and technical writing formats not assessed by the ACT English section.
- Speed-reading techniques and test-taking strategies that are not content-based (e.g., process of elimination heuristics without content understanding).
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