Reading study guides

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.