Reasoning Through Language Arts: Free Sample Lesson
Try a Reasoning Through Language Arts lesson with worked examples, practice questions and explanations.
Getting started
- How this course works
- The GED RLA test
Reading foundations
- Main idea and supporting details
- Summarising a text
- Making inferences
- Words in context
- Sequence and cause and effect
- Comparing and contrasting
Reading informational texts
- Author's purpose and point of view
- Text structure
- Claims, reasons, and evidence
- Evaluating arguments
- Comparing two texts
- Workplace and public documents
- Founding documents and speeches
Reading literary texts
- Plot and setting
- Characters
- Theme
- Narrator and point of view
- Figurative language
- Tone and mood
- Drawing conclusions about literature
Grammar and usage
- Complete sentences
- Subject-verb agreement
- Pronouns
- Verb tenses
- Modifiers
- Parallel structure
- Commonly confused words
Punctuation, style and editing
- Capitalization
- Commas
- Apostrophes and other punctuation
- Transitions and logical flow
- Wordiness and formal style
- Editing a passage
Writing the Extended Response
- Understanding the essay task
- Analysing the two arguments
- Planning your essay
- Writing the introduction and thesis
- Writing body paragraphs with evidence
- Conclusion and revision
- A complete model essay
Test skills and practice exams
- Test strategies
- Practice exam 1
- Practice exam 2
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