Adventures in Reading: Beginning to Intermediate

"Adventures in Reading" is a three-book high-interest reading series for secondary and non-credit community college ESL student. The series is designed to promote their reading comprehension and vocabulary skills - to help these students achieve academic and social success. The features of this book include: adventure-based reading passages profile, exciting adventures like biking down a volcano in Hawaii, running the Boston Marathon, and discovering an underground city in Australia; picture dictionary approach to vocabulary building prepares students to effectively tackle new readings; reading comprehension tasks presented in standardized testing formats prepare students for success in a variety of standardized tests; critical reading skills like making inferences, identifying cause and effect, and many others are taught and recycled. Cooperative learning tasks with graphic organizers promote the development of critical thinking skills. Internet search activities encourage students to further explore each topic. Components per Level include: Student Book (includes Scope and Sequence and Skills index), Teacher's Manual (with answer key, chapter quizzes, and vocabulary activities, audio cassette with recordings of all readings, and audio CD with recordings of all readings.