Reading Skills
Build stronger reading comprehension step by step.
Learn how to understand main ideas, supporting details, reference words, vocabulary in context, inference, and paragraph structure using clear explanations and test-style reading skills.
Reading Focus
Understand passages, not only words.
Strong reading means understanding how ideas are connected. This section trains learners to read for meaning, logic, structure, and test performance.
Main idea
Supporting details
Reference words
Inference
Learning Approach
Reading is trained through skills, not memorised tricks.
Real reading passages are often complex. The main idea may not be obvious, details may be spread across several sentences, and the writer’s meaning may be indirect. This section helps learners build the thinking process needed for real comprehension.
Understand the structure
Learn how sentences and paragraphs work together to develop meaning.
Use context
Learn how to use surrounding words, examples, contrast, and logic to understand meaning.
Apply test skills
Practise skills that support IELTS, TOEFL, PTE, and other English reading tasks.
Available Now
Start with the first reading foundations.
These lessons are already available. More reading lessons will be added step by step.
Available lessons
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Understanding Main Ideas
Foundation
Learn how to identify the central message of a paragraph or passage without relying only on the first or last sentence.
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Finding Supporting Details
Foundation
Learn how details, examples, reasons, and evidence support the writer’s main point.
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Reading Course
Reading skill lessons
Start with core comprehension skills first, then move to more advanced test-style reading strategies.
Understanding Main Ideas
Foundation
Learn how to identify the central message of a paragraph or passage without relying only on the first or last sentence.
Open LessonFinding Supporting Details
Foundation
Learn how details, examples, reasons, and evidence support the writer’s main point.
Open LessonUnderstanding Reference Words
Foundation
Learn how words like this, that, these, it, they, and such connect ideas across sentences.
Vocabulary in Context
Foundation
Learn how to guess meaning from surrounding words, sentence logic, contrast, examples, and topic clues.
Making Inferences
Intermediate
Learn how to understand meaning that is suggested but not directly stated in the passage.
Recognising Writer’s Purpose
Intermediate
Learn how to identify whether the writer is explaining, arguing, comparing, warning, criticising, or persuading.
Skimming and Scanning
Test Skill
Learn how to read quickly for general meaning and locate specific information efficiently.
Understanding Paragraph Function
Test Skill
Learn why a paragraph is included and how it develops the structure of a longer passage.
Vocabulary Support
Reading improves faster with strong vocabulary.
The vocabulary library supports reading development. Start with the Core 2,000 Common Words, then continue with academic vocabulary and topic-based lists such as technology, education, business, and environment.