Includes indexes.

"Interactions/Mosaic prepares students for university classes by fully integrating every aspect of student life. Based on 28 years of classroom-tested best practices, the new and revised content, fresh modern look, and new online component make this the perfect series for contemporary classrooms." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: Neighborhoods, Cities, and Towns

Reading Selections:
College Campuses Today
An Email From College

Reading Skills and Strategies: Prereading: Thinking about the topic
Making predictions
Previewing vocabulary
Identifying main ideas and details in a reading
Following textbook directions

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Making predictions
Synthesizing and discussing ideas from a reading

Vocabulary Building:
Previewing vocabulary
Understanding new words with is, are, is like, and are like
Developing vocabulary strategies
Understanding prepositions

Language Skills:
Understanding large numbers
Using prepositions

Chapter 2: Shopping and E-Commerce

Reading Selections:
Internet Shopping
Predicting the Future of Shopping

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Prereading: Thinking about the topic
Previewing vocabulary
Understanding new words: using punctuation clues
Understanding quotation marks
Identifying the topic and main ideas of a paragraph
Summarizing

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Analyzing predictions from the past and about the future
Identifying a good summary
Synthesizing and discussing ideas from a reading
Safely using passwords on websites

Vocabulary Building:
Previewing vocabulary
Understanding new words from examples
Understanding new words: using punctuation clues

Language Skills: Reviewing verb tenses

Chapter 3: Friends and Family

Reading Selections:
New Ways of Staying Connected
Cell Phones Save Lives

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Prereading: Thinking about the topic
Skimming
Previewing vocabulary
Recognizing organization in an essay
Identifying main ideas and details
Reading a blog

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Using a graphic organizer to organize ideas in an essay
Making predictions
Using the Internet as a dictionary tool

Vocabulary Building:
Previewing vocabulary
Understanding new words: using pictures
Using a print dictionary: alphabetical order
Understanding pronouns

Language Skills:
Interviewing other students
Using pronouns

Chapter 4: Health Care

Reading Selections:
Health News for Body and Mind
Are You Healthy? (Questionnaire)

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Prereading: Thinking about the topic
Previewing vocabulary Understanding italics
Understanding the main ideas
Making predictions
Reading and answering a questionnaire

Critical-Thinking Skills: Analyzing and comparing answers
Finding important details
Synthesizing and discussing ideas from a reading

Vocabulary Building:
Previewing vocabulary
Finding meaning after which or who
Identifying and matching vocabulary words and definitions Understanding pronouns Changing nouns to adjectives
Identifying body parts
Identifying opposites

Language Skills:
Giving advice
Understanding guide words in a dictionary
Describing illnesses
Understanding pronouns

Chapter 5: Men and Women

Reading Selections:
Men and Women in Business
Gender and Communication on Campus

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Prereading: Thinking about the topic
Previewing vocabulary
Understanding new words in a reading
Understanding main ideas and details
Identifying a good summary
Making predictions
Reading faster: reading in phrases

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Understanding a graph
Making predictions
Recognizing and writing conclusions

Vocabulary Building:
Previewing vocabulary
Checking vocabulary

Language Skills:
Interviewing other students
Discussing ideas from the reading
Understanding language and sexism
Using gender-neutral possessive adjectives

Chapter 6: Sleep and Dreams

Reading Selections:
The Purpose of Sleep and Dreams
A Dream Narrative

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Prereading: Thinking about the topic
Previewing Vocabulary Finding the meaning of new words: meaning after or
Identifying details
Thinking about the topic
Identifying the main idea

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Understanding mood
Finding the meaning of new words from context
Searching for and analyzing information on the Internet

Vocabulary Building:
Previewing vocabulary
Understanding words from their parts
Finding the meaning of words: meaning after or
Previewing vocabulary
Understanding pronouns

Language Skills:
Interviewing students
Discussing ideas from the reading

Chapter 7: Work and Lifestyles

Reading Selections:
Volunteering
My Special Year

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Prereading: Thinking about the topic
Previewing vocabulary
Finding the meaning of new words: looking at colons
Understanding sentences with the word that
Finding the main ideas and important details
Checking vocabulary

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Organizing details using a T-chart
Making inferences
Reading and analyzing a chart

Vocabulary Building:
Previewing vocabulary
Understanding words from their parts: suffixes

Language Skills: Understanding sentences with the word that

Chapter 8: Food and Nutrition

Reading Selections:
New Foods, New Diets
Eating Bugs

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Prereading: Thinking about the topic
Previewing a reading Previewing vocabulary
Identifying the main ideas in a reading
Using opposites to understand a new word
Identifying the topic in a paragraph
Finding details

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Organizing details using a graphic organizer
Reading and analyzing a chart
Analyzing information

Vocabulary Building:
Previewing vocabulary
Using opposites to understand a new word
Figuring out words with more than one meaning

Language Skills: Interviewing other students

Chapter 9: Great Destinations

Reading Selections:
Adventure Vacations
Your Travel Personality (Questionnaire)
Tours and Traveling

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Prereading: Thinking about the topic
Previewing the reading
Previewing vocabulary
Finding the main idea and details
Making predictions
Reading a website and analyzing information

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Reaching a conclusion: paying attention to evidence
Synthesizing and discussing ideas from a reading
Reading a website and analyzing information
Identifying support for opinions

Vocabulary Building:
Previewing vocabulary
Understanding words for directions
Understanding words from their prefixes
Using go + verb + -ing for activities

Language Skills:
Understanding words for directions
Stating and explaining opinions

Chapter 10: Our Planet

Reading Selections:
The Ocean in Trouble
Repairing the Environment

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Prereading: Thinking about the topic
Previewing vocabulary
Finding the meaning of words from the context
Identifying the main idea and details
Reading a paragraph that includes a chart

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Understanding relationships between ideas
Using a graphic organizer to show relationships
Making inferences
Discussing and synthesizing a reading
Reading and analyzing a graph
Reading and analyzing a pie chart
Comparing facts and figures

Vocabulary Building:
Previewing vocabulary
Understanding words from their parts: over in a word
Understanding words that can be more than one part of speech

Language Skills:
Interviewing other students
Using facts and figures