Features

•Thematically paired fiction and non-fiction unit topics
•Full-color illustration accompanying all fiction passages and activities
•Full-color photographs accompanying all non-fiction passages and activities
•Comprehension activities in both textual and graphic formats
•Repeated recycling of high-frequency vocabulary
•Dual-format audio recordings of all passages for listening/read-along and listening/repeating
•Pull-out full-color workbook included

Unit Structure

•Warm-up: questions to activate student schema related to title, images, and topic
•New Words: list of target vocabulary with accompanying photos that “define” usage in the unit
•Reading: target passage
•Checking: comprehension questions including a main-idea question and two detail questions
•Listening: picture-based listening activity featuring target vocabulary of unit
•Mapping: comprehension reinforcement activity based on graphic organizer representing passage content
•Vocabulary Review: various activities to reinforce target vocabulary usage
•Summary: picture-supported reinforcement of passage content and unit target vocabulary