Subject

Language & Literature

Words, stories and poems - from your first letters and rhymes to grammar, literary devices, the classics and university criticism, one tiny step at a time.

This track covers reading and writing as skills: grammar, spelling, vocabulary, sentence construction, figurative language, poetry, story structure, analysis and how to build an argument in writing.

It also covers how language itself works and changes, including where English came from and why its spelling is so inconsistent. That material is genuinely useful rather than trivia, because most spelling irregularities follow historical patterns once you know them.

Reading closely and writing clearly are the two skills that make every other subject accessible, and they are learnable rather than innate. This track treats them as craft.

Units: 18
Steps: 373
Questions: 2,226

Who this track is for

Primary literacy through to secondary English language and literature.

How to approach it

Read the poems and passages aloud, especially for rhythm and sound
Grammar terms are worth learning as labels for things you already do
Analysis improves fastest by writing about texts, not just reading them

Study guide · 8 min readHow to Learn EnglishReading closely and writing clearly are craft, not talent. A guide to why first drafts are supposed to be bad, how to find a theme without guessing, and the punctuation rules that actually change meaning.

What you will be able to do

Punctuate a complex sentence correctly and know why
Identify a text's theme and support it from the text
Recognise figurative language and say what it is doing
Structure an argument in paragraphs that each do one job

The thing people get wrong

That good writing is a matter of taste or talent. Most of it is structure and revision - one idea per paragraph, sentences that end where the thought does - and first drafts are bad for everyone.

If you only do 3 units

The mechanics, then the marks that carry meaning, then putting it together. Skipping the first two makes the third much harder than it needs to be.

What the questions look like

8 real questions from across the Language & Literature track, easiest first, each with the answer and the reason behind it. Every unit page below has thirty more.

Fill the blankLevel 1
1. The word "hat" begins with the sound of the letter ____.
- hcorrect
- a
- t
- c
Hat starts with the h sound, which is the letter h.
Build the sentenceLevel 1
2. Build a sentence with an action word.
Answer: The fish swims fast
Swims is the action word showing what the fish does.
Fact or fibLevel 1
3. The names of days, like Monday, should start with a capital letter.
Answer: True
Days of the week are proper nouns and always begin with a capital letter.
Fact or fibLevel 1
4. A story's problem is usually solved at the very beginning.
Answer: False
A story's problem is usually solved near the end, after it has been introduced.
Build the sentenceLevel 1
5. Build the rule: the letters ay often appear at the end of a word.
Answer: The letters ay often appear at the end of a word
This is a common spelling rule for the long a sound at the end of words like play and day.
Multiple choiceLevel 1
6. Which word correctly shows that a dog belongs to Sam?
- Sam's dogcorrect
- Sams dog
- Sam,s dog
- Sams' dog
An apostrophe plus s shows ownership, so Sam's dog means the dog that belongs to Sam.
Fact or fibLevel 1
7. You should always use a dictionary and never the sentence around a word to guess its meaning.
Answer: False
A dictionary helps, but skilled readers also use context clues from the surrounding sentence.
Build the sentenceLevel 2
8. Build a sentence using an adjective before the noun.
Answer: She has a red ball
The adjective 'red' describes the noun 'ball' in this sentence.

Units in Language & Literature

Listed in the order they are meant to be worked through.

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Where these questions come from. Each unit starts as a plan of the concepts it should cover and the difficulty it should span. Questions are written against that plan with AI assistance, then checked by a validator that rejects anything without a single defensible answer, an explanation, or plausible wrong options. How we write questions sets out the whole process, and corrections are fixed in the bank and reach the site and the app the same day.