Read an original passage, with or without a timer, then check your answers question by question. The Worksheet tab prints the same passages for class or home. Results are practice, not a diagnosis or placement score.
Short · about 60 words · about 1 min · History
What did Marco see at the medieval fair?
What kind of treats were sold at the fair?
Why did Marco feel like he traveled back in time?
Each passage comes with three multiple-choice questions about what it says. The passage is hidden while you answer, so the result reflects what you understood and remembered rather than how quickly you can search the text. The answer options are shuffled for every passage, so the position of an option gives nothing away.
The score is the share of questions you answered correctly. With three questions per passage, one result moves in steps of about 33 percentage points, so compare results over several passages. Your last scores stay in this browser for that.
With the timer on, the result also shows your reading speed and an accuracy-adjusted speed. A review of speed-reading research found a trade-off between speed and accuracy (Rayner et al., 2016), so a faster time with fewer correct answers is not a better result.
A score means more next to your pace: time your silent reading in words per minute and compare the two. To practise a steady pace, try the RSVP speed reader, and to pick passages that fit you, check your reading level.
Choose a passage in the Worksheet tab, then print it or save it as a PDF. Each sheet starts with a header to fill in by hand, and every question has letter bubbles to circle. The answer key prints on its own page, so you can keep it apart from the sheet.
Tick the set option to print five passages of the same length in one go, with one answer key for all of them. Paper size follows your language setting, and you can switch between A4 and US Letter.
A U.S. Department of Education practice guide for kindergarten to grade 3 found strong evidence for teaching comprehension strategies, such as asking questions about a text and retelling it in your own words (Shanahan et al., 2010).
For adult readers, a review of reading research concluded that the way to read faster while keeping comprehension high is to practice reading and to build vocabulary (Rayner et al., 2016).
On this page, that can mean retelling a passage to yourself before you open the questions, then using the review to find the detail you missed.
Only if you want it to be. Tick the timer box before you read and the result adds your reading speed. Without it, read at your own pace.
There are 60 original passages in each language, grouped into three lengths by word count. Each passage has three questions with one correct answer.
No. It shows how many questions you answered correctly about one passage. The passages are grouped by length, not by school grade.
Yes. The Worksheet tab prints a passage with its questions and an answer key on a separate page, or a set of five passages.
Your last scores are saved in this browser only, so you can compare passages. They are not sent anywhere.
