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\nFinding TOEFL-like passages to practice for TOEFL Reading is reasonably easy\u2014just find a nice medium-length article on an educational website, or read excerpts from first and second-year college textbooks. Finding good passages to prep for TOEFL Integrated Writing is a bit trickier, but here is a nice guide to gathering good prep material for this task. (And be sure to check out our blog’s comprehensive TOEFL Integrated Writing guide<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

Finding appropriate practice reading for TOEFL Integrated Writing<\/h2>\n

…is a little harder. In TOEFL Integrated Writing, you\u2019re asked to read a passage that is short\u2014but not too short. You won\u2019t get the extremely brief 1-2 paragraph blurbs seen in TOEFL Integrated Speaking. But Integrated Writing passages aren\u2019t anywhere near as long as TOEFL Reading Passages either. In terms of actual content and topic development, think of Integrated Writing passages as a simplified \u201cdigest\u201d version of the TOEFL Reading format\u2014you\u2019ll get the same range of ideas on a subject, but in a shorter format with fewer supporting details.<\/p>\n

The passages for the Integrated Writing Task are intellectually demanding enough that you definitely will want to do some relevant, appropriate practice reading. And you\u2019ll want the reading to be comparable in some ways to reading practice for the TOEFL Reading Section\u00a0 The trick is to find educational articles that match the Integrated Writing passage’s themes and particular length\u2014 articles that are 250-350 words long and cover a variety of academic subjects.<\/p>\n

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Recommendations for Practice<\/h2>\n

Outside of official TOEFL materials and third-party practice platforms like ours here at Magoosh<\/a>, there aren’t any “perfect fits” for the reading portion of TOEFL Integrated Writing.\u00a0But there are some great sources that come quite close, in terms of TOEFL-like practice for this task.<\/p>\n

\u200bPopular Science<\/em>\u200b<\/a>\u00a0is one good place to look. Many of this website\u2019s articles are very TOEFL-like terms of vocabulary level, subject matter, and academic tone. Even better, Popular Science<\/em> has\u00a0a portal just for its shorter science articles<\/a>, all of which fall within the Integrated Writing passage range of length or very close to it.<\/p>\n

English Online<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>is also pretty good for this kind of TOEFL Reading Practice. Granted, in some articles the vocabulary level is slightly (but only slightly)\u00a0below the difficulty of the\u00a0average TOEFL Integrated Writing Passage. This can be a plus in its own way though\u2014if you need to build your vocabulary up as well as practice reading for the TOEFL Writing section, English Online can help you start at a vocabulary level that meets your learning needs\u2014and each article comes with a vocabulary study sheet.<\/p>\n

In general, any 200-500 word educational articles written at an intermediate English level are useful. Other good websites to check out include\u00a0The Week<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0the blog section<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Discover Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0Time<\/em>\u200b\u200bMagazine<\/em>\u00a0For Kids<\/em><\/a>, and the\u00a0\u200bShort, Sharp Science Blog<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>over at\u00a0The New Scientist<\/em>\u200b \u00a0website.\u00a0These are a little further off-the-mark than\u00a0Popular Science<\/em>\u200b or\u00a0\u200bEnglish Online<\/em>\u200b, but they’re still pretty close. And you really don’t need exactly<\/em>\u200b perfect matches to Integrated Writing’s passage format. These kinds of near-equivalent sources can help you get in some good practice with reading comprehension and the kind of light note-taking on the passage<\/a>\u00a0that is sometimes helpful on this task.<\/p>\n

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