Section 1: Acquiring Reading Skills

Unit 1: Everyday Inventions: The Wonder of Human Ingenuity

Reading Skill: Identifying Topic Sentences

Unit 2: Disaster Response 101: Preparing for the Worst

Reading Skill: Making Inferences

Unit 3: Nutrition Tips to Take with a Grain of Salt

Reading Skill: Comparing and Contrasting

Unit 4: Savant Syndrome: Islands of Ability

Reading Skill: Scanning a Text for Information

Unit 5: The Roots of Rock ’n’ Roll

Reading Skill: Identifying Shifts in Thought/Perspective

Unit 6: Facts About Kombucha

Reading Skill: Analyzing the Supporting Details of a Paragraph

Unit 7: Vitamin D: The Sunshine Vitamin

Reading Skill: Extracting Salient Points to Summarize

Unit 8: Three English Romantic Poets

Reading Skill: Understanding the Elements of Argumentative Essays

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Section 2: Putting the Skills to Practice

Unit 1: Online Shopping: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain

Unit 2: A Matter of Manners

Unit 3: The Dark Side of Light Pollution

Unit 4: The Once-in-a-Generation Talent of Timothee Chalamet

Unit 5: Evolution of Music Listening

Unit 6: Get Moving: The Hidden Risks of Sitting Down

Unit 7: The Q’eswachaka Bridge: A Link to the Past

Unit 8: The Tech Trends Shaping the Future of Exercise

Unit 9: Perfume: A Timeless Elixir of Culture and Emotion

Unit 10: A Fondness for Dublin

Unit 11: The Often Overlooked Problem of Indoor Air Pollution

Unit 12: The Unexpected Consequences of Antibiotics

Unit 13: Cotton: Convenience Comes with Consequences

Unit 14: Dealing with Anger: To Bottle or to Burst?

Unit 15: How Canning Changed the World

Unit 16: Digital Hoarders—Swimming in a Sea of Files

Unit 17: Under the Radar: The World’s Unseen Environmental Disaster

Unit 18: Chocolate Culture in Belgium

Unit 19: Colmar, France’s Fairy-Tale Town

Unit 20: Antarctica Under Threat

Unit 21: AI Art: A Revolution or a Robbery?

Unit 22: The Dark Side of Beauty

Unit 23: The Real Alice’s Wonderland

Unit 24: The Pantheon: Where Ancient Rome Comes Alive

Unit 25: Curry: A Global Variety Show

Unit 26: The Roots of Fairy Tales

Unit 27: Broadway and Beyond: The Evolution of Musical Theater

Unit 28: The Tour de France: Cycling’s Biggest Stage

Unit 29: The Dawn of the Automobile

Unit 30: Orcas: Sovereigns of the Sea

Unit 31: Nightmares: Their Origins and Meanings

Unit 32: Meet Me Under the Cherry Tree: The Japanese Practice of?Hanami

Unit 33: Cold Air, Hot Planet

Unit 34: Punctuation Evolved

Unit 35: Bitter Medicine: The Surprising Medical Treatments of the Past

Unit 36: Wimbledon: A History of Tradition and Transformation

Unit 37: Taking Charge of Your Credit Cards

Unit 38: Fortune-Telling: Fact or Fiction?

Unit 39: How Many Colors Do You See?

Unit 40: Niagara Falls: A Mighty Wonder of Nature

Unit 41: Quantum Computers: The Next Step in Technological Evolution?

Unit 42: Plastic Microbeads: Small Beads, Big Problems



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