Reading study guides
ACT Β· ACT Β· aligned to ACT.
- ACT Reading Craft and Structure: words in context, purpose, structure, tone, and voice - complete overview
A complete overview of the ACT Reading Craft and Structure reporting category: reading words and phrases in context, identifying an author's purpose and point of view, recognizing text structure, reading tone from word choice, and reading character and narrative voice.
π 12 min readACT-READING-CS - ACT Reading format and strategy: the enhanced section, scoring, and how to take it - complete overview
A complete overview of the ACT Reading format and how to take the section: the enhanced format of about 36 questions in 40 minutes, how it changed from the legacy 40-question section, the 1 to 36 scoring, active reading, and answer-choice strategy.
π 12 min readACT-READING-FORMAT - ACT Reading Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: arguments, evidence, fact versus opinion, and comparison - complete overview
A complete overview of the ACT Reading Integration of Knowledge and Ideas reporting category: analyzing arguments and claims, evaluating evidence and reasoning, telling fact from opinion, and comparing two passages on a related topic.
π 12 min readACT-READING-IKI - ACT Reading Key Ideas and Details: central idea, summary, inference, cause and relationships - complete overview
A complete overview of the ACT Reading Key Ideas and Details reporting category, the largest slice of the section: finding the central idea and theme, summarizing accurately, drawing inferences, tracking sequence and cause and effect, and reading relationships between ideas.
π 12 min readACT-READING-KID - ACT Reading paired passages and pacing: working the pair, budgeting time, and closing out - complete overview
A complete overview of ACT Reading paired passages and pacing: the routine for working a two-passage part, budgeting about 40 minutes by part, ordering the work to your strengths, managing hard passages, and a final-minute strategy that leaves no blank.
π 12 min readACT-READING-PACING - The four ACT Reading passage types: literary narrative, social science, humanities, and natural science - complete overview
A complete overview of the four ACT Reading passage types: literary narrative (prose fiction), social science, humanities, and natural science, the shared engine for the three informational types, the distinct approach to prose fiction, and how to read each.
π 12 min readACT-READING-TYPES