This week there were several people who were not really sure about the difference between main idea and purpose of the author. Here are some reading exercises on biographies (texts of chronology) from Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. where you are required to select the main idea of the texts. There are also vocabulary and inference exercises. I hope they prove useful to you.

I will also include more sites with exercises for practice in the "links" area of the sidebar on the right of this page.

Comments are welcome (let me know if the exercises were helpful, if you learned from them, if they were too easy, etc.)