ACT® Reading
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Welcome to ACT® Reading
Welcome to Albert's ACT® Reading course!
This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's ACT® Reading prep course, including how it is organized, what standards it is aligned to, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.
For testing information or details about the exam itself, visit the ACT Official Website.
Subject Organization
Albert's ACT® Reading course is separated into 2 tabs: The Practice Tab and the Assessment Tab.
Practice Tab
Albert's ACT® Reading multiple choice questions located in the Practice tab are organized according to the passage genres listed in the table below.
| Theme | Description |
|---|---|
| Social Science | Passages focus on current and past significant social events. Questions focus on the larger context, supporting details, inferences, vocabulary, and text development. |
| Natural Sciences | This theme offers high-interest, complex texts that address a myriad of current and past scientific breakthroughs, topics of research, and discussions. Questions focus on close reading skills and analysis. |
| Literary Narrative and Prose Fiction | Students will read portions of literature from some of the most well-known literary texts from past and present. Again, questions will ask students to read closely, think critically, and carefully approach each question. |
| Humanities | Magazine articles, scholarly work, and critiques are some of the many different types of texts students will encounter in this rigorous, relevant theme. |
| Paired Passages | This unique theme allows students to compare, contrast, and make connections between two different texts on the same topic. Students will encounter one set of paired passage on the actual ACT® Reading exam. Questions and passages address social science, natural sciences, literary narrative and prose fiction, and humanities. |
Assessments Tab
Albert's ACT® Reading multiple choice questions located in the Assessments tab are organized in 2 themes: topic quizzes based on the skills set forth in ACT®'s Reading Test Description and full-length Practice Exams.
The Topic Quizzes focus on the topics listed below:
- Arguments
- Central Ideas, Themes, and Summaries
- Close Reading
- Purpose and Point of View
- Relationships
- Text Structure
- Word Meanings and Word Choice
The 5 Full-Length Practice Exams cover all the skills and standards assessed on the ACT® Reading test, include 40 questions, and mimic the rigor, length, and style of the actual exam.
Using Standards to Find Questions
Every ACT® Reading question is aligned to the standards outlined in the ACT® College and Career Readiness Standards.
Here is a list of all the types of standards currently included in our ACT® Reading content, as well as the specific standard formatting we use:
| Type of Standards | Example Albert Formatting |
|---|---|
| Close Reading (CLR) | CLR 201 |
| Central Ideas, Themes, and Summaries (IDT) | IDT 301 |
| Relationships (REL) | REL 402 |
| Word Meanings and Word Choice (WME) | WME 201 |
| Text Structure (TST) | TST 601 |
| Purpose and Point of View (PPV) | PPV 503 |
| Arguments (ARG) | ARG 201 |
| Multiple Texts (SYN) | SYN 601 |
You can find questions aligned to learning standards using our standards search tool. In the Standards drop-down at the top of the Practice or Assessments tab, you can search for standards by name (for example, TST 601) or description. When you type in characters that match one of the standards, the drop-down will populate with matching standards.
For more help on finding questions using standards, visit our Help Center.
Question Types
ACT® Reading seeks to mirror the questions students will see on the actual exam. Therefore, all questions in this course are multiple choice.
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Related Content
For additional material, you can combine ACT® Reading with our other core courses, Reading Skills, Leveled Readings, and Novels and Drama. Our core courses are aligned to state and national English Language Arts standards, so you can leverage thousands of aligned practice questions across Albert to assess, reteach, and extend student learning.