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This four-level series integrates survival English with academic content skills in social studies, science, math, and history. Lessons cover skills required on most middle school state-competency tests. Students interpret graphs and charts, read maps, solve math word problems, and learn library and study skills.
UNIT 1 Biggest and Best
Getting to Know You (Interviewing, making an oral report)
Complete the Sentence (Reviewing grammar, completing a cloze exercise)
Whose Are They? (Forming and using comparatives and superlatives, including
those of good, using vocabulary in context)
Cars and Houses (Using comparatives, interpreting data)
That's Superlative! (Forming and using superlatives, writing descriptive paragraphs)
Similes (Understanding and creating similes)
Reading the Newspaper: The Index (Classifying, identifying main idea, using
an index, learning about newspapers, interpreting section headings)
Whose Is It? (Deductive problem solving, reading for details)
Dear Dot (Reading for main idea, making inferences, generalizing
from experiences, expressing opinions in writing)
UNIT 2 Saying It Simply
How Do They Do It? (Forming and using adverbs, using the comparative form
of adverbs, using context to complete sentences)
How Did They Say It? (Using adverbs, building vocabulary, using
context to complete sentences)
Summaries (Reading for main idea, writing a summary)
In a Few Words (Reading for main idea, writing a summary)
In a Few Words (Reading for main idea, choosing relevant details, writing a summary)
Reading the Newspaper: Headlines (Reading for main idea, writing headlines,
learning about newspapers, determining meaning from context)
Read All About It (Making judgments, categorizing, expanding vocabulary)
Adjective or Adverb? (Choosing between adjectives and adverbs, building
vocabulary, internalizing grammar rules)
Dear Dot (Reading for main idea, making inferences, generalizing from
experience, expressing opinions in writing)
UNIT 3 Then and Now
Which One Is It? (Using present perfect tense, using time expressions
with for, understanding implied meaning)
Luisa and Nga (Choosing between simple past and present perfect, using
context to determine correct tense)
The Past Perfect (Forming and using the past perfect, combining sentences using after)
The Break-In (Using the simple past and past perfect, understanding and
using reported speech)
What the Puzzler Has Done (Reviewing the present perfect, using past participles)
Reading the Newspaper: The New Story (Organizing information, reading for
main idea and details, identifying reported speech, writing news stories)
Preparing for Tests: Inferences and Conclusions (Reading for inference,
finding specific information, drawing conclusions)
Dear Dot (Reading for main idea, making inferences, making judgments,
expressing opinions in writing)
UNIT 4 It's Up to You, Isn't It?
Tag Endings (Forming and using tag endings, asking and answering
questions, plotting information on charts)
What Do You Know? (Forming and using tag endings, using reference
materials, building knowledge of world geography)
Voting: Your Part in Government (Reading for details, making judgments,
supporting opinions in writing)
And So Do I (Combining sentences using too and so, choosing correct tenses,
writing alternate forms of a sentence)
Either, Neither (Combining sentences with either and neither, writing alternate
forms of a sentence)
Reading the Newspaper: The Feature Story (Reading for specific
information, understanding different types of informative writing, understanding
cause and effect, writing a scientific/technical feature story)
Preparing for Tests: Stated and Implied Ideas (1) (Reading for inference,
finding specific information, understanding stated and implied ideas)
Dear Dot (Reading for main idea, understanding words through context,
making judgments, expressing opinions in writing)
UNIT 5 Wheels
Active and Passive (Forming and using the passive voice, distinguishing
between active and passive)
Who, What, When (Understanding the passive voice, using reference
books, placing historical events in time)
Where Is It Made or Grown? (Interpreting a map with product symbols,
forming and using the passive voice)
Getting Your License (Reading for main idea and details, applying personal experience
to interpretation of reading materials, expressing opinions in writing)
Reading the Newspaper: Automobiles (Interpreting advertisements, reading
for detail, writing descriptions, writing advertisements)
Restating Information (Simplifying and restating information, understanding
active and passive voice)
Dear Dot (Reading for main idea, reasoning deductively, making
judgments, expressing opinions in writing)
UNIT 6 How Do You Say It?
American (Building vocabulary, understanding American culture,
taking multiple-choice tests)
Analogies (Classifying words, reasoning logically, discovering
relationships, building vocabulary)
What Will Happen...? (Understanding causes and effect, using
conditionals, expressing future action with will and may)
If You Forget (Understanding cause and effect, predicting outcomes,
completing conditional sentences)
Could You Please Tell Me...? (Writing questions with polite introductory
phrases, using correct word order)
Trivia Time (Reviewing/understanding cultural information in a game situation)
Reading the Newspaper: The Editorial Page (Distinguishing between fact and opinion, making inferences, establishing tone, supporting an opinion in writing)
Saying It Another Way (Simplifying and restating information, understanding
different levels of discourse, understanding various question forms)
Fact or Opinion (Distinguishing between fact and opinion)
Dear Dot (Reading for details, building vocabulary, making judgments,
expressing opinions in writing)
UNIT 7 Decisions, Decisions
He Used to Be Fat (Expressing past action with used to; reading for specific
information, comparing and contrasting)
What Should You Do? (Using modals should, ought to, had better,
making judgments, writing solutions to problems)
It's Possible! (Expressing possibility with might or may, making
inferences, drawing conclusions)
The Elephant Man (Reading for main idea and details, distinguishing between fact
and opinion, expressing opinions in writing, interpreting proverbs)
I'd Rather Stay Home (Expressing preference with would rather)
Take It With a Grain of Salt (Interpreting figurative language)
Reading the Newspaper: Just For Fun (Reading for main ideas and details,
understanding modals, solving a puzzle, completing a chart)
Find the Error (1) (Finding and correcting grammatical errors,
preparing for standardized tests)
Dear Dot (Interpreting figurative language, making judgments, drawing
conclusions, expressing opinions in writing)
UNIT 8 Be a Good Sport
Gerunds: When Verbs Become Nouns (Choosing between gerunds and infinitives)
Gerunds and Prepositions (Using gerunds after prepositions, using gerunds
and infinitives to complete sentences)
Adjectives Ending in -ed and -ing (Using -ed/-ing adjectives correctly, expanding vocabulary, differentiating between two forms of the same word)
What's the Sport? (Classifying, using context clues, making inferences,
interpreting figurative language)
You've Got a Problems (Solving mathematical word problems)
Adjective Form or Noun Form? (Choosing between adjectives and nouns,
building vocabulary, internalizing grammar rules)
Reading the Newspaper: The Sports Pages (Understanding figurative language,
drawing conclusions, locating specific information, using context clues)
Your Choice of Words (Understanding vocabulary in context, preparing
standardized tests)
Dear Dot (Reading for main idea, understanding figurative language, making
judgments, expressing opinions in writing)
UNIT 9 On the Job
Taxes and Pay Slips (Reading for details, understanding taxes, getting
information from forms)
Paying Taxes (Understanding taxes, answering if questions, reading a
chart, solving mathematical word problems)
Your Income Tax (Understanding taxes, locating specific information,
completing a form)
Reading the Newspaper: Help Wanted (Reading for detail, classifying,
writing a resume and cover letter, role playing)
Figure It Out (Solving mathematical word problems, computing percents,
understanding taxes)
Finding the Job (Reading for main idea and details, making inferences
and judgments, expressing opinions in writing)
UNIT 10 Who Said What?
I Wish I Could (Using wish conditional, completing conditional sentences)
Madeline Madden (Wish conditional with past and past perfect tenses, expressing
wishes in writing)
What Did You Say? (Reported speech with past and past perfect tenses)
Too, Very, Enough (Using quantifying adverbs)
The Bill of Rights: Basic Freedoms (Locating specific information,
understanding and using abbreviations, establishing tone)
Picture It (Discussing and interpreting a photograph, writing a descriptive paragraph)
Dear Dot (Reading for main idea, making judgments, predicting outcomes,
expressing opinions in writing)
UNIT 11 Making Choices
Even Though I Shouldn't (Forming even though clauses, predicting outcomes)
What Should He Have Done? (Using past modals, problem solving)
I Wonder Why (Using past modals, drawing conclusions)
If We Had Known (Using past models, understanding cause and
effect, predicting outcomes)
What If? (Sequencing tenses with if, proposing possible solutions to problems)
Reading the Newspaper: The Movies (Reading a schedule, making inferences,
reading for main idea, summarizing)
Which Movie? (Classifying, using past modals, making inferences,
suggesting alternate solutions)
Find the Error (2) (Finding and correcting grammatical errors, preparing
for standardized tests)
Dear Dot (Reading for main idea and details, understanding figurative language,
making judgments, expressing opinions in writing)
Vocabulary Review
Appendix: Parts of Speech
End-of-Book Test
Skills Index