1. Breaking Down the English
What are the ‘need to knows’ of this section of the ACT?

2. The English Section: 45 minutes 75 questions Two question categories
Six skills assessed

3. Usage/Mechanics (40 questions) Rhetorical Skills (35 questions)
Question Categories
Usage/Mechanics (40 questions) Rhetorical Skills (35 questions)

4. Skills/Content Tested
Examples
# of Questions
Punctuation
commas, apostrophes, colons, semicolons, dashes, periods, question marks, and exclamation points
7-11 questions
Grammar & Usage
subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement, pronoun forms and cases, adjectives, adverbs, verb forms, comparative and superlative modifiers, and idioms
11-15 questions
Sentence Structure
subordinate or dependent clauses, run-on or fused sentences, comma splices, sentence fragments, misplaced modifiers, shifts in verb tense or voice, and shifts in pronoun person or number
15-19 questions

5. Skills/Content Tested
Examples
# of Questions
Strategy
adding, revising, or deleting sentences; how a sentence fits with the purpose, audience, and focus of  a paragraph or the essay as a whole
11-15 questions
Organization
opening, transitional, and closing phrases or statements; order and focus of sentences or paragraphs
7-11 questions
Style
writing style, tone, clarity, and effectiveness; eliminating ambiguity, wordiness, and redundant material; clarifying vague or awkward material

6. Punctuation (10-15%)
These questions test conventions of internal and end-of sentence punctuation. In other words, you have to understand correct comma, apostrophe, period, and semicolon use.
Make sure to take the entire sentence into account, even if the question asks about the punctuation of just a short phrase. 

7. Grammar and Usage (15-20%) subject and verb agreement
agreement between pronoun and antecedent
agreement between modifiers and the word modified
Verb formation
pronoun case
formation of comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs are also tested. 

8. Sentence Structure (20-25%)
These questions test your understanding of relationships between and among clauses, placement of modifiers, and shifts in construction.
make sure to keep an eye on the sentence as a whole and find the answer that makes the relationship between clauses as clear and natural as possible.

9. Strategy (15-20%)
Strategy questions test how well you can develop a given topic by choosing words or phrases that match an essay's audience and purpose. 
You also have to judge the effect of adding, revising, or deleting supporting material.
Ask yourself, does the extra material add to the argument, or just confuse it?
you have to take the entire passage into account and carefully consider whether the possible revision clarifies or confuses the passage's message. 

11. Organization (10-15%)
The organization questions test how well you organize ideas and choose effective opening, transitional, and closing sentences.
These questions tend to focus on the beginning and ends of paragraphs.

13. Style (15-20%) These questions test how well you
select precise and appropriate words and images,
maintain the level of style and tone in an essay,
manage sentence elements for rhetorical effectiveness, and
avoid ambiguous pronoun references, wordiness, and redundancy.

15. Note: In ACT English, most questions have a NO CHANGE option.
The ACT loves tricking students using these answer choices, because it knows that students who don't know grammar rules won't see anything wrong with the sentence. No Change is a really easy answer to choose.

16. Save time
 Solve all your questions first in the book, then bubble all of them in at once. Saves two minutes on average.
36 seconds per question. Some take more time, some take less.
Practice the weak areas

17. STUDENT ACOUNTABILITY
Strategies
TIME! TIME! TIME!
REVIEW
STUDENT ACOUNTABILITY

18. Strategies Mini lessons or bell-ringers can be used as refreshers
With every English practice passage, REVIEW the answers and make the kids explain.
Keep track of which skills are missed the most in your classes

19. Resources
Mastery Prep ($$)
Prep Factory (Free)