Beginner Personal Development
Reading Comprehension
Read any text with confidence and understand what it really says. Starting from zero, you learn to find the main idea and the details that support it, to work out unknown words from the context, to read between the lines, to recognize the author's purpose and point of view, and to handle the texts of everyday life: news, notices, instructions, receipts and contracts. Short passages, plenty of practice and no school jargon.
5 modules 10 lessons 4 h 250 questions
Course content
1 Main Idea and Details 2 lessons · 1 practice 0 of 3
Lesson 1 · 6:05Find the Main Idea
Lesson 2 · 6:03Details and Summaries
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2 Vocabulary in Context 2 lessons · 1 practice 0 of 3
Lesson 1 · 6:57Unknown Words: Use the Clues
Lesson 2 · 7:17Words With More Than One Meaning
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3 Inferences 2 lessons · 1 practice 0 of 3
Lesson 1 · 6:05Reading Between the Lines
Lesson 2 · 6:25Predictions and Hidden Causes
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4 Author's Purpose and Point of View 2 lessons · 1 practice 0 of 3
Lesson 1 · 6:40Why Was This Written? Facts and Opinions
Lesson 2 · 6:32Tone, Ads and Critical Reading
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5 Everyday Texts 2 lessons · 1 practice 0 of 3
Lesson 1 · 6:38News, Instructions and Notices
Lesson 2 · 6:41Bills, Contracts and Suspicious Messages
Practice · 0 of 25 questionsModule practice
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Answer 25 questions
This module has 50 questions; 25 count toward the certificate.
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Tips
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Main Idea
Say the main idea in one sentence
If you cannot, you have not found it yet
Main Idea
Look first at the first and last sentences
The key sentence often hides there
Main Idea
Ask of each detail: what is this proving?
Details are there to support something
Main Idea
Summarize with your own words
Keep the main idea, drop the small stuff