Contents
Unit
1 Exam Time
Page 11
Chapter
Reading Skill
Vocabulary Skill
Real Life Skill
For Better Grades—
Use Your Brain!
Reference article
Oh, No! Not
Another Test!
Magazine article
Describing
a Process
Word Webs
Reading Test
Instructions
Identifying Main and The Suffix -ize
Supporting Ideas
2 Going Abroad
We’re in Vietnam!
Blog posts
Safe Travel
Magazine article
Scanning for Details
Predicting
Adjective Endings –ed­ and -ing
The Prefix pre-
Reading and
Understanding
Immigration
Forms
Makers
3 Movie
Behind the Scenes
Using Headings to
Understand Main
Ideas
Recognizing
Sequence
of Events
The Prefix dis-
Organizing
Vocabulary
Understanding
the Use
of Italics
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Page 31
Magazine article
The Rise of J. J.
Abrams
Reference article
Review 1
Page 41
Fluency Strategy: PRO; Are Human Beings Getting Smarter? Reference article
Fluency Practice: 1. The Film and the Novel: Twilight Magazine article;
2. Organic Farming: The New Vacation Newspaper article
4 Young
Laura Dekker: Record-Setter!
Reference article
The Unbeatable
Yani Tseng
Reference article
Previewing
Predicting
Verbs Used to
Talk about
Sports and Games
Adjectives with the
Suffix -ous
Using Dates
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You Are Amazing:
You Are Human!
Web article
Seeing with the Ears
Magazine article
Identifying Main
Ideas within
Paragraphs
Predicting
Vocabulary
Nouns Ending in
-logy/-ology
Finding the Right
Doctor
Athletes Page 49
The Amazing
Human Body
Page 59
6 Leisure Time
Page 69
Review 2
Page 79
4 Scrapbooking
Finding Definitions Web interview
Moving from
Recognizing Facts
TV to the Web
Reference article
The Suffix -ion
The Suffix -ment
Word Associations
Using Key
Words for
Internet
Searches
Fluency Strategy: PQR+E; Movies for the Blind Newspaper article
Fluency Practice: 3. Raising a Child Athlete Reference article;
4. The Life of a Professional Gamer Magazine article
Unit
Chapter
Reading Skill
Vocabulary Skill
7 A World
Sounds from the Past
Reference article
For the Record: Album Reviews
Newspaper article
Predicting
Noticing Patterns
The Prefix ex-
Dictionary Usage:
Choosing the
Easily Confused Words Right Word
8 Career Paths
College Start-Ups
Magazine article
The Right Job for your
Personality
Reference article
Making Inferences
Skimming for
General Ideas
Compound Nouns
Adjective Endings
Searching for a
Job Online
The Story of
9 Chocolate
A Brief History of
Chocolate
Magazine article
The Truth about
Chocolate
Newspaper article
Recognizing
Sequence
of Events
Understanding the
Main Ideas
Identifying Part of
Speech
Synonyms
Dictionary
Usage:
Choosing the
Right Definition
of Music
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Page 107
Review 3
Page 117
The Secrets
10
of Advertising
Page 125
Food and the
11
Environment
Real Life Skill
Fluency Strategy: KWL; Will Shortz: Puzzle Maker Newspaper article
Fluency Practice: 5. The People Behind the Music Reference article;
6. Savory Chocolate Magazine article
Ads Are Everywhere! Scanning for Proper Prefixes in-, im-,
Reference article
Nouns
and un-
Brand Engagement Making Inferences
Word Families
Gone Wrong
Newspaper article
Advertising
and Psychology
Engineering a Better
Burger
Magazine article
Is Your Diet Destroying
the Environment?
Reference article
Distinguishing
between Main and
Supporting Ideas
Understanding
Cause and Effect
Adverbs
Understanding
Units of
Measure
The Root Word vit/viv
Clean Up Australia,
Clean Up the World
Web article
Resources for
the Future
Scanning for Names
and Numbers
Skimming to
Assess a Passage
The Prefix re-
The Prefixes over
and under
Page 145
Reference article
Page 135
Living for the
12
Future
Review 4
Page 155
Reading
Numbers
in Text
Fluency Strategy: Reading ACTIVEly; Billboards that Recognize You Newspaper article
Fluency Practice: 7. The Life of a Food Critic Magazine article;
8. The Urban Gardener Newspaper article
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