Intermediate English

Castle Learning Online's Intermediate English includes questions covering reading skills and grammar. The Critical Reading Passages unit contains interesting reading passages with related questions, testing a student's comprehension skills. Associated with each reading passage is a related essay that students can work with offline.

Passages vary in length and are categorized into the following main genres: General Prose, Informational Prose, Poetry, Speech, and Information and Chart. Each passage is also assigned a difficulty level (Basic, Intermediate, or Advanced), relative to reading levels appropriate for students at the middle school level. In addition to asking questions of a factual nature, the Critical Reading/Essays unit tests students’ ability to make an inference, draw a conclusion, use contextual clues to identify vocabulary, and interpret negatives.

The Reading Skills unit constists of shorter passages covering the same skills.

Units: (click to view Sections)
  1. Critical Reading Passages
  2. Critical Reading Skills
  3. Grammar: The Sentence
  4. Grammar: Internal Punctuation
  5. Grammar: Usage
 Themes:
  1. Identifying Factual Information
  2. Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
  3. Understanding Vocabulary Usage Based on Context
  4. Identifying Main Idea or Theme
  5. Identifying Mood
  6. Identifying Multiple Levels of Meaning
  7. Grammar
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