Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension is a vital skill used at school, work, and in daily life.
Codidact offers students many exercises aiming at developing students' reading and comprehension skills such as
  • reading for meaning
    1. recognizing words accurately
    2. using context clues to figure out tough and unfamiliar words
    3. understanding what synonyms are and how to use them
    4. finding words with opposite meanings
    5. identifying the author’s purpose or purposes in writing a story
    6. understanding a sequence of events
    7. recognizing cause-and-effect relationships
    8. predicting what will happen next in a story
  • developing good comprehension skills
    1. identifying topics, main ideas, and supporting details of paragraphs
    2. identifying types of paragraphs
    3. telling the difference between fact and opinion
    4. identifying the different elements of a story such as setting, plot, character, and tone
    5. identifying a writer's attitude and tone through figurative language such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, symbol, oxymoron, idiom, analogy, epithet, onomatopoeia, and personification
    6. distinguishing among different genres of writing (fiction, nonfiction, etc.)