The Reading Roadmap

This course develops essential comprehension skills and critical reading skills through two modules. You will learn to identify central ideas, collect facts, interpret meaning and make inferences.

No Certificate / Course on Audit Track

About Course

The Reading Roadmap is designed to build essential reading comprehension skills for academic and test-based reading. You will learn practical strategies for understanding facts, identifying key information, and answering factual and negative factual questions. The course also develops inference skills to help you interpret information that is not directly stated. These techniques will improve your accuracy, confidence, and overall reading performance, particularly for TOEFL Reading.

Authorship and Attribution

This course has been curated by Riphah International University faculty and staff using publicly available third-party content and Open Educational Resources (OER) for self-paced learning. Learners will engage with curated open-access materials to achieve the course learning outcomes. All third-party content is used under open-access or fair-use policies, while any original materials are developed specifically for this learning experience.

Source and Credits:

  • Instructor: Robin Waldun
  • Provider: YouTube (@RCWaldun)
  • License: Standard YouTube license

Source and Credits:

  • Instructor: Test Resources – TOEFL Preparation
  • Provider: YouTube (@Toeflresources)
  • License: Standard YouTube license

Source and Credits:

  • Instructor: TOEFL
  • Provider: YouTube (@TOEFLofficial)
  • License: Standard YouTube license

Source and Credits:

  • Instructor: EasyTeaching
  • Provider: YouTube (@EasyTeachingNet)
  • License: Standard YouTube license

What You'll Learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to: 

  • Students will be able to master the art of comprehension
  • Unlock deeper meaning in text
  •  Navigate complex texts with ease

Prerequisites

To be successful in this course, you should have a basic proficiency in English reading to help you gain maximum benefit from the course.

Who Can Take This Course?

This course is ideal for students who want to improve their reading comprehension or prepare for an international exam.

Course Outline

Essential Reading Comprehension Skills

Reading for Comprehension; Two skills nobody taught you (Video)

Information and Inference Strategies

Reading for facts TOEFL Reading Mastery Factual Questions (Video)

TOEFL IBT Factual & Negative Factual Questions (Video)

Inferring Reading Strategies Easy Teaching (Video)

Skills You Will Gain

Reading Comprehension Skills Factual Question Strategies Negative Factual Questions Inference Reading Strategies Key Information Identification Evidence Based Reading TOEFL Reading Techniques Reading Accuracy Improvement

Course Information

Duration

Less Than 1 Hour

Course Information

Difficulty Level

All Levels

Learning Mode

Fully Online (Asynchronous)

Learning Type

Self Paced

Language

English Only

Instructor/Curator

Course Instructor
  • Samina Najeeb profile image
    Samina Najeeb Senior Lecturer, English, Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities (FSSH)