Pathways 1: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking: Text with Online Access Code

AUTHORS: Mari Vargo; Laurie Blass

Features

• National Geographic articles, video, maps, and graphs engage students with academic content in a variety of genres and formats.
• Clear connections between reading and writing skills help students become more effective readers and writers.
• Academic reading skills and strategies, embedded in the unit tasks, prepare students to comprehend a variety of realistic academic texts.
• Step-by-step writing instruction, with integrated grammar and vocabulary, provides practice of a variety of rhetorical forms modeled on the academic classroom.
• Integrated critical thinking tasks develop learners’ ability to evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information from a wide range of sources.