UNIT ONE
Thinking Starters
Text A: Will Spelling Count?
Text B: How to Read Better and Faster
Reading Skills: Contextual Clues to Word Meaning
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT TWO
Thinking Starters
Text A: The Book That Changed My Lives: An Introduction
Text B: For the Love of Books
Reading Skills: Guessing Word Meaning from Word Formation (I)
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT THREE
Thinking Starters
Text A: Giving Disorganized Boys the Tools for Success
Text B: The Traditional Approach and Why It Doesn't Work
Reading Skills: Guessing Word Meaning from Word Formation (II)
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT FOUR
Thinking Starters
Text A: Bringing the Best out of People
Text B: Putting Feelings into Words
Reading Skills: Guessing Word Meaning from Synonyms and Antonyms (I)
Readings and Self-testing
FIVE
Thinking Starters
Text A: Independence Day
Text B: Independence Day (continued)
Reading Skills: Guessing Word Meaning from Synonyms and Antonyms (II)
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT SIX
Thinking Starters
Text A: Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
Text B: Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self (continued)
Reading Skills: Recognizing Examples and Illustration
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT SEVEN
Thinking Starters
Text A: The Threat of Secondhand Smoke Justifies Smoking Restrictions
Text B: Smoking Should Be Treated as Nicotine Addiction
Reading Skills: Prediction
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT EIGHT
Thinking Starters
Text A: Channelled Whelk
Text B: Never Say Never
Reading Skills: Recognizing Restatement
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT NINE
Thinking Starters
Text A: An Honest Doubter
Text B: My Friend Lodovico
Reading Skills: Skimming
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT TEN
Thinking Starters
Text A: Own This Child
Text B: Barbie to Baby Einstein: Get Over It
Reading Skills: Scanning
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT ELEVEN
Thinking Starters
Text A: Australia: An Underappreciated Nation
Text B: Towards One Destiny
Reading Skills: Summarizing (I)
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT TWELVE
Thinking Starters
Text A: On Seeing England for the First Time
Text B: Welcome to St Paul's
Reading Skills: Summarizing (II)
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT THIRTEEN
Thinking Starters
Text A: A Granddaughter's Fear
Text B: On the Verge of Adulthood: Older Teens and the Library
Reading Skills: Recognizing Sequence (I)
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT FOURTEEN
Thinking Starters
Text A: Joyas Voladoras
Text B: Leader of the Pack: The Fascinating Lives of Wolves
Reading Skills: Recognizing Sequence (II)
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT FIFTEEN
Thinking Starters
Text A: 86,400 Hours
Text B: Men and Women Talking on the Job
Reading Skills: Signal Words (I)
Readings and Self-testing
UNIT SIXTEEN
Thinking Starters
Text A: Gravity
Text B: What If It Happens in Your Family?
Reading Skills: Signal Words (II)
Readings and Self-testing