Reading drills
Passages, inference and evidence. 0 of 150 sets completed.
Key Ideas and Details
Main ideas, details and inferences. These sets lean on direct and inferential questions.
11 Standard
Walls That Tell a StoryFoundations15 Standard
Music for the Silent ScreenFoundations16 Standard
What Happens While You SleepFoundations18 Standard
News at the Speed of WireFoundations19 Standard
The Cellist and the Old Music ShopFoundations24 Standard
Following the MonarchsFoundations27 Standard
The Translator's DilemmaFoundations28 Standard
Rivers of IceFoundations34 Standard
Words by the ThousandFoundations35 Standard
Why We Tell FolktalesFoundations38 Standard
Gardens in the CityFoundations40 Standard
Teaching the Body to Defend ItselfFoundations44 Standard
A Desert SurvivorFoundations62 Standard
The Art of Persuasion in AthensFoundations66 Standard
A Camera Against Child LaborFoundations72 Standard
Engineered by SpidersFoundations74 Standard
The Pump on Broad StreetFoundations94 Standard
All RoadsFoundations124 Standard
The Arms Race Inside UsFoundations140 Standard
The Living Skin of the EarthFoundations148 Standard
The Invisible WorkersFoundations7 Standard
Seventeen SyllablesCore8 Standard
The Dance of the HoneybeeCore12 Standard
Life at the VentsCore14 Standard
The Map and the WorldCore20 Standard
Why the Sky Is BlueCore22 Standard
Inventing the WeekendCore26 Standard
From Barter to CoinsCore36 Standard
Cities of the SeaCore39 Standard
One Frame at a TimeCore42 Standard
How Streetcars Built the SuburbsCore52 Standard
The Wood Wide WebCore58 Standard
The Palace of Fixed PricesCore64 Standard
Seeing the UnseeableCore70 Standard
A Private Choice in a Public PlaceCore75 Standard
Where the Line BreaksCore76 Standard
Curtains of LightCore84 Standard
The Strange Behavior of IceCore86 Standard
The Long Life of a LanguageCore88 Standard
Digging Up the PastCore98 Standard
Small Loans, Big IdeasCore108 Standard
Medicine Without a DrugCore111 Standard
Learning to See DepthCore114 Standard
The Aisle That Changed EatingCore126 Standard
The Fish We ShareCore146 Standard
Dividing the RiverCore3Free
How a Piano Is TunedChallenge4 Standard
Why Leaves Change ColorChallenge48 Standard
How Bridges StandChallenge92 Standard
The Science of FlavorChallenge95 Standard
Fourteen LinesChallenge104 Standard
The Efficiency Problem of PhotosynthesisChallenge107 Standard
Thinking in CounterpointChallenge116 Standard
A Sea Growing SourChallenge120 Standard
Both Wave and ParticleChallenge122 Standard
Reading the EvidenceChallenge128 Standard
When Cells Forget to StopChallengeCraft and Structure
Word meaning, purpose, tone and point of view. These sets lean on how the author writes.
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The Rise of the Public LibraryFoundations17 Standard
The Hand-Me-Down BicycleFoundations23 Standard
Reading a PhotographFoundations30 Standard
Eighteen Months of the Pony ExpressFoundations31 Standard
Jazz and the Art of ImprovisationFoundations32 Standard
The Cold Light of FirefliesFoundations47 Standard
The Slow Art of CalligraphyFoundations55 Standard
Quilts That Tell StoriesFoundations63 Standard
Rhythm and RhymeFoundations71 Standard
Singing Without a MicrophoneFoundations73 Standard
The Distance Between StationsFoundations82 Standard
Counting EveryoneFoundations83 Standard
Stories Told in LettersFoundations10 Standard
Why Prices ChangeCore43 Standard
Shadows on the ScreenCore45 Standard
StaticCore68 Standard
Seeing With SoundCore87 Standard
Why We Love a Scary StoryCore91 Standard
Raked Gravel and Standing StonesCore101 Standard
The AuctionCore102 Standard
Why We Trust PaperCore103 Standard
The Beauty of RuinsCore117 Standard
Between Two KitchensCore121 Standard
The Glassblower's HandsCore137 Standard
Parking Lot AstronomyCore144 Standard
The Brain That Rebuilds ItselfCore1Free
The Old RowboatChallenge6 Standard
The Day of Two NoonsChallenge9 Standard
The SubstituteChallenge51 Standard
Why Cathedrals Reach for the SkyChallenge54 Standard
Sharing the CommonsChallenge56 Standard
Reading the RingsChallenge61 Standard
The OrchardChallenge85 Standard
Third ShiftChallenge96 Standard
Measuring the Distance to a StarChallenge115 Standard
The Memoirist's DilemmaChallenge119 Standard
Writing Down DanceChallenge133 Standard
The Weight of WaterChallenge135 Standard
Who Owns the Past?Challenge136 Standard
Finding Other WorldsChallenge141 Standard
InheritanceChallengeIntegration of Knowledge and Ideas
Evidence, comparison and conclusions. These sets lean on connecting ideas.
5 Standard
The Night MarketFoundations13 Standard
The Lighthouse Keeper's DaughterFoundations21 Standard
Flour on the CounterFoundations29 Standard
The Last Bus HomeFoundations33 Standard
The Seed LibraryFoundations37 Standard
The InterviewFoundations41 Standard
The Morning FerryFoundations46 Standard
Push and PullFoundations53 Standard
InventoryFoundations69 Standard
The Surveyor's ApprenticeFoundations77 Standard
The RebuttalFoundations81 Standard
The Song She RememberedFoundations93 Standard
The LocksmithFoundations100 Standard
Trees in the CityFoundations109 Standard
Winter WheatFoundations132 Standard
The Atom and the GridFoundations25 Standard
The Chess RivalCore49 Standard
The Borrowed CoatCore50 Standard
How Opinion Polls WorkCore57 Standard
The InterpreterCore67 Standard
The Person Who Runs the ShowCore97 Standard
Plot Twenty-ThreeCore112 Standard
Engineering the HarvestCore125 Standard
Quiet HoursCore129 Standard
OverdueCore138 Standard
Editing the HarvestCore142 Standard
Bringing Back the MammothCore145 Standard
Night ClassCore59 Standard
Learning Poems by HeartChallenge60 Standard
What Ended the Age of Dinosaurs?Challenge65 Standard
UnderstudyChallenge78 Standard
Bulbs and BubblesChallenge79 Standard
Walls That SpeakChallenge80 Standard
Bringing Back the Lost?Challenge89 Standard
Sound CheckChallenge90 Standard
The Case For and Against TestingChallenge99 Standard
Why Study Latin?Challenge105 Standard
Fault LinesChallenge106 Standard
Building Up or Building OutChallenge110 Standard
Nudges and ChoicesChallenge113 Standard
The Last CustomerChallenge118 Standard
The First BellChallenge123 Standard
Whose Words?Challenge127 Standard
Reading the MovieChallenge130 Standard
Who Owns Your Attention?Challenge131 Standard
The Library After BooksChallenge134 Standard
GratuityChallenge139 Standard
At the Museum DoorChallenge143 Standard
Making It UpChallenge147 Standard
Borrowed CharactersChallenge149 Standard
Borrowed WordsChallenge150 Standard
Machines and WorkChallenge