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College Readiness Standards™

Ideas for Progress: Range 1–12

ACT Explore/ACT Plan/The ACT Reading

To enhance their skills in each reading-related strand, students who score in the 1–12 score range may benefit from activities that encourage them to do the following:

Score Range 1–12
Main Ideas and Author's Approach	locate details in a literary text that suggest the author's or narrator's intent speculate about an author's or narrator's beliefs, motives, or thinking
Supporting Details	write, exchange, and answer a series of questions that examine significant details presented in a text locate and discuss details presented in a text (e.g., who, what, where)
Sequential, Comparative, and Cause-Effect Relationships	use various strategies (e.g., timelines, event chains, discussion) to determine whether an event occurred and, if so, when it occurred discuss an issue of interest, determining how past events affected the present locate evidence in a text that explicitly states why an event or a series of events occurred search for patterns or clues (e.g., signal words) that indicate cause-effect relationships
Meanings of Words	use various resources (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus) to explore connotations of familiar words or descriptive language
Generalizations and Conclusions	recognize generalizations about the main character in a literary text combine several pieces of information to make a reasonable generalization about a specific character make predictions about characters and events presented in a literary text, verifying or rejecting those predictions and making new ones as they read