Reading & Writing
Evidence-based reading and writing skills across four content domains.
~1h 4m
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Author Purpose
Practice analyzing why an author wrote a passage or included a specific detail.
6 questions
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Central Ideas And Details
Practice locating and interpreting explicit supporting details in a passage.
5 questions
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Command Of Evidence
Practice selecting the textual or quantitative evidence that best supports a claim.
17 questions
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Cross Text Connections
Practice comparing and connecting ideas across a pair of related passages.
8 questions
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Inference
Practice drawing logical conclusions that a passage implies but never states directly.
9 questions
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Main Idea
Practice identifying a passage's central claim or main idea.
3 questions
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Modifier Placement
Practice spotting and fixing dangling and misplaced modifiers.
3 questions
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Possessives
Practice forming possessives correctly, including tricky apostrophe placement.
2 questions
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Pronouns
Practice choosing pronouns with correct case, agreement, and unambiguous reference.
4 questions
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Punctuation
Practice applying comma, apostrophe, and other punctuation rules correctly.
7 questions
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Rhetorical Synthesis
Practice combining bullet-point notes into a sentence that meets a stated rhetorical goal.
13 questions
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Sentence Boundaries
Practice fixing run-ons, fragments, and misused commas, semicolons, and colons between clauses.
6 questions
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Text Structure
Practice understanding how a passage is organized and how its parts relate to each other.
7 questions
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Transitions
Practice choosing the transition word or phrase that best improves a passage’s logical flow.
14 questions
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Verb Agreement
Practice matching subjects and verbs correctly in number and person.
4 questions
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Verb Tense
Practice keeping verb tense consistent and correct across a sentence or passage.
4 questions
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Vocabulary In Context
Practice determining what a word or phrase means based on how it is used in a passage.
43 questions