Comprehensive English Skills Curriculum

Succeed by learning how to use your Penn Foster program.

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

• Understand how to use your Student Portal.
• Access the Penn Foster Community and use it to find answers.
• Connect with Penn Foster on various social media sites.

Learn the comprehensive English reading skills you’ll need in business and everyday life.

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

• Select main ideas and interpret what you read.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions.
• Distinguish fact from opinion and detect bias.
• Use imagery, similes, and metaphors in your writing.
• Understand and analyze characters, setting, plot, conflict, and theme in fiction writing.

Practice and improve your writing knowledge and skills.

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

• Identify basic parts of speech.
• Describe the writing process.
• Compare poetry and prose.
• Compose unified, coherent, and effectively structured paragraphs.
• Write an essay with an introduction, body, and conclusion.
• Write courtesy letters and formal invitations.
• Create business letters and interoffice memos.
• Write a factual report, a letter of application for a job, and a resume with a cover letter

Learn to communicate more effectively and interpret writing and speech.

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

• Recognize and use both formal and informal English for letter writing.
• Use effective and appropriate vocabulary.
• Express your feelings, thoughts, and ideas easily and accurately.
• Talk to others and write with more confidence.
• Interpret and understand what people say and what you read.