Includes Vocabulary Index, Editing Symbols, and Grading Rubric.

Unit 1 - Special Days

READING: A Festival of Colors

WRITING 1
Skills: The Sentence / Capitalization Rules
Practice: Writing about holidays

READING: Birthdays around the World

WRITING 2
Skills: The Paragraph
Practice: Writing about your birthday

Unit 2 - Places

READING: Venice: A Changing City

WRITING 1
Skills: Adjectives
Practice: Writing about a city

READING: Life Is Good in Iceland

WRITING 2
Skills: The Comparative Form of Adjectives / The Superlative Form of Adjectives
Practice: Writing about one's country

Unit 3 - Ways to Health

READING: Go to Sleep!

WRITING 1
Skills: Using when
Practice: Writing about sleep habits

READING: Laughing Out Loud

WRITING 2
Skills: Adverbs
Practice: Writing about laughing

Unit 4 - Customs

READING: What to Name the Baby

WRITING 1
Skills: Count Nouns and Noncount Nouns
Practice: Writing about a special day

READING: Eat, Drink, and Know the Customs

WRITING 2
Skills: Common One-Word Prepositions / Prepositional Phrases
Practice: Writing about a meal

Unit 5 - Food

READING: Hold Your Nose and Eat!

WRITING 1
Skills: Writing Instructions
Practice: Writing about a favourite food

READING: The World's Most Popular Drink

WRITING 2
Skills: The Pronouns it and them
Practice: Writing about a favourite drink

Unit 6 - Inventors and Their Inventions

READING: Dinner Fresh from the Freezer

WRITING 1
Skills: Comparing Things with as... as
Practice: Writing about microwave

READING: A Sharp Idea from King Gillette

WRITING 2
Skills: Using too and very with Adjectives
Practice: Writing about toothbrushes

Unit 7 - Amazing People

READING: Hayat Sindi: One Person Helps the World

WRITING 1
Skills: Asking Questions / Prepositions of Time
Practice: Writing about the life of a classmate

READING: A Life with Chimpanzees

WRITING 2
Skills: Writing about Someone's Life / Different Ways of Expressing Time
Practice: Writing about the events in one's life

Unit 8 - Readings from Literature

READING: The Rain

WRITING 1
Skills: Review of Parts of Speech
Practice: Writing a poem

READING: The Shepherd's Boy

WRITING 2
Skills: Paraphrasing
Practice: Writing a fable

Vocabulary Index

Editing Symbols

Grading Rubric

"Weaving It Together helps learners build reading and writing skills through relevant readings and carefully structured writing exercises. By balancing these two necessary competencies, learners seamlessly develop both language and academic skills." (Publisher's Website)

For false beginner (A2 - CEFR) ESL learners.