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ACT Reading

Improve your ACT Reading and Writing scores with strategies for Prose Fiction, Social Science and Humanities, and Natural Sciences. Learn how to ace complexity and organization for top results. Enhance your language skills with impactful vocabulary usage and money words selection.

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ACT Reading

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  1. ACT Reading • Class Average—1st, 2nd Hour: 20.1 • Class Average—3rd, 4th, 6th Hour: 15.6 • “College-Ready”—21

  2. Prose Fiction • KNOW • Who? • Detail questions • Character names, how related to each other, characteristics • What is their state of mind? • Usually inference questions • Note facial expressions, reactions to other characters, etc. • What’s going on? • Detail, inference or big picture questions • What is the plot? • What could have happened before to influence this situation? • What is the tone? • Inference or big picture questions • Look at DICTION, words with strong connotation to help you determine

  3. Top Missed Prose Fiction Questions 1st, 2nd Hour—2 (22/36), 4 (31/36), 7 (28/36) 3rd, 4th, 6th Hour—6 (42/56), 9 (21/56)

  4. Social Science and Humanities • Prior knowledge may help but keep an eye out for inference questions • You don’t have to remember the passage • Find the answers—Find and paraphrase • Flip back and forth • Underline, actively read

  5. Top Missed Questions • 1st, 2nd Hour—19 (26/36), 20 (29/36), 22 (34/36), 23 (23/36) 29 (26/36) • 3rd, 4th, 6th Hour—11 (40/56), 26, 27, 29, 29, 30 (all 41 or 42/56)

  6. Natural Sciences • Don’t get lost in unnecessary details • Don’t try to remember everything • Read questions first • Underline, actively read

  7. Top Missed Questions • 1st, 2nd Hour—33, 38 • 3rd, 4th, 6th Hour—39, 40 (45/56)

  8. Five Minutes Left • Read the questions. You will know some without the passage or can make an educated guess. • You can do this. Stop the mindset of guessing on an entire passage. • Have an answer for every question. • Watch the clock/Time yourself

  9. ACT Writing—Position/Content • PLAN before you begin • Be yourself and express your opinions • BUT … have support to back it up • Black history month is in February to honor the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln • Other ethnicities/groups do have months set aside • March: Women’s History Month, Greek Heritage Month, Irish-American Heritage Month • May: Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, Jewish American Heritage Month • September: Hispanic Heritage Month

  10. Position/Content • Express yourself • BUT … Reign in some views • N-word—regardless of the ending, not okay. Especially not okay for white people. You don’t get this word. Get over it. • All boys school does not mean everyone becomes gay. • All girls school does not mean everyone becomes gay. • Careful with generalizations • Add the word some or many to avoid generalizations • Example: Some girls have trouble concentrating in co-ed classrooms.

  11. Complexity • It’s one-fourth of your score…Make it good. • Aim for 3 points of complexity • For each point—PAR • Paraphrase the opposing view • Acknowledge the good points of it • Refute (disprove it) • Strongest essays bring up in each paragraph • If doing this option, make sure the complexity actually goes with the topic of the paragraph

  12. Organization • Use common words and/or a transition word at the beginning of each paragraph • Basics (the first example, another example, secondly) get you a 4 • If you finish and have a few minutes, this is a good edit. Go back and double check. You can easily add a transition word if necessary. • Transition web site: • http://www.smart-words.org/transition-words.html

  13. Language • Basic vocabulary and few/no mistakes—4 • Good vocabulary and few/no mistakes-5 • Great vocabulary, phrases the reader remembers, no mistakes—6 • Choose a few $Money Words$ to help you spice up that essay (if this is an area you struggle with) • Few minutes left? Re-read the essay, make easy changes

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