This course is intended to help learners prepare to take the GED test. The course consists of a variety of lessons and activities to improve your knowledge of different reading and writing strategies. Units include: Explore fiction and non-fiction texts, Explore the structure and characteristics in fiction, Identify and investigate characters and settings, theme and symbolism, Explore methods for organizing research information, Explore informational texts; writing structures, purpose etc., Develop skills for writing persuasively and planning, organizing, drafting, and editing academic writing.