2026 TOEFL Reading Syllabus

 

2026 TOEFL Reading Syllabus

Test Format

Word Completion Task

• Answering Strategies

• Grammar for Word Completion

• Sentence Elements

• Parts of Speech and Their Grammatical Roles

• How to Guess Function Words

• How to Guess Content Words

• Suffixes as Clues

• High-Frequency Homophones

• Exercise Sets

Reading in Daily Life

• Answering Strategies

• Main Purpose Questions

• Detail Questions

• Inference Questions

• Exercise Sets

Academic Passages

• Question Types and Strategy Plans

• Main Idea Questions

• Vocabulary Questions

• Information Questions

• Inference Questions

• Negative Information Questions

• Rhetorical Purpose Questions

• Organization Questions

• Sentence Insertion Questions

• Exercise Sets

Interactive quizzes

Information/Inference Questions

• Synonym

• Restatement

• Generalization

• Similarity

• Difference

• Logical Entailment

• Hypothesis and Evidence

• Counterexample

• Cause and Effect​

Negative Information Questions

• Contradiction

• No Mention

Rhetorical Purpose Questions

• Illustration

• Explanation

• Alternative Explanation

• Counterexample

• Refutation of Counterexample

Organization Questions

• Evidence for a Theory

• Explanation of a Phenomenon

• Refutation of a Theory

Paraphrase Questions

• Reason

• Simplification

• Definition

• Cause and Effect

• Comparison and Contrast

Reference Questions

• Personal Pronouns

• Demonstrative Pronouns

• Indefinite Pronouns

Sentence Insertion Questions

• From General to Specific

• Demonstrative Words

• Indefinite Pronouns

• Transition Words of Addition

• Transition Words of Contrast

• Transition Words of Emphasis

• Transition Words of Inference

Vocabulary Questions

• Multiple Meanings

• Greek and Latin Roots

• General Academic Words

• Adjectives

• Adverbs

• Verbs

• Nouns

• Phrases

2025 TOEFL Reading Course Syllabus