"Online Workbook Included" (Front Cover).

"Prism Reading Level 3 has 8 units to develop vocabulary, academic, and critical thinking skills. Students experience topics through fascinating readings in a wide variety of genres and formats to become familiar with material they might face in or outside the college classroom. Each book includes a single-use code to access the Online Workbook that has one new reading per unit, extra practice to further improve reading, vocabulary, and language development. Other resources include videos and recordings of readings. Activities have automated feedback to help with learner autonomy, and for teachers to spend less time grading and more time teaching." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS:

Scope and Sequence

How Prism Reading Works

What Makes Prism Reading Special

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

Unit 1 GLOBALIZATION (Academic Disciplines: Cultural Studies / Sociology)

Reading Passages:
1. Turkish Treats (blog post)
2. Changing Eating Habits in Italy (essay)

Key Reading Skills:
Making predictions from a text type
Scanning topic sentences
Taking notes on supporting examples

Additional Reading Skills:
Understanding key vocabulary
Annotating
Reading for details
Working out meaning
Making inferences
Reading for main ideas
Paraphrasing
Identifying purpose and audience
Synthesizing

Language Development:
Academic alternatives to phrasal verbs
Globalization vocabulary

Watch and Listen:
Chinese Flavors for American Snacks

Special Features:
Critical Thinking
Collaboration

Unit 2 EDUCATION (Academic Disciplines: Communications / Education)

Reading Passages:
1. Should I Major in Business or Engineering? (article)
2. Distance vs. Face-to-Face Learning (article)

Key Reading Skills:
Making inferences
Using a Venn diagram

Additional Reading Skills:
Understanding key vocabulary
Using your knowledge
Reading for main ideas
Reading for details
Taking notes
Synthesizing

Language Development:
Education vocabulary
Academic words

Watch and Listen:
College Debt and Bankruptcy

Special Features:
Critical Thinking
Collaboration

Unit 3 MEDICINE (Academic Disciplines: Health Sciences / Medicine)

Reading Passages:
1. The Homeopathy Debate (debate)
2. Should Healthcare Be Free? (blog post)

Key Reading Skills:
Annotating a text

Additional Reading Skills:
Understanding key vocabulary
Using your knowledge
Previewing
Reading for details
Identifying opinions
Skimming
Reading for main ideas
Scanning to find key words
Making inferences
Synthesizing

Language Development:
Medical vocabulary
Academic vocabulary

Watch and Listen:
A New Way to Handle Allergies

Special Features:
Critical Thinking
Collaboration

Unit 4 THE ENVIRONMENT (Academic Disciplines: Ecology / Environmental studies)

Reading Passages:
1. Controlling Certain Disaster (interview)
2. Combatting Drought in Rural Africa (report)

Key Reading Skills:
Identifying cohesive devices

Additional Reading Skills:
Understanding key vocabulary
Predicting content using visuals
Reading for details
Making inferences
Using your knowledge
Reading for main ideas
Taking notes
Synthesizing

Language Development:
Academic noun phrases
Natural disaster vocabulary

Watch and Listen:
Population and Water

Special Features:
Critical Thinking
Collaboration

Unit 5 ARCHITECTURE (Academic Disciplines: Architecture / Urban Planning)

Reading Passages:
1. We Need More Green Buildings (article)
2. Form, Function, or Both? (essay)

Key Reading Skills:
Skimming a text

Additional Reading Skills:
Understanding key vocabulary
Reading for details
Annotating
Making inferences
Summarizing
Understanding paraphrase Synthesizing

Language Development:
Academic word families
Architecture and planning vocabulary

Watch and Listen:
Building a Green Home

Special Features:
Critical Thinking
Collaboration

Unit 6 ENERGY (Academic Disciplines: Engineering / Physics)

Reading Passages:
1. Renewable Energy (fact sheet)
2. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (essay)

Key Reading Skills:
Working out meaning from context

Additional Reading Skills:
Predicting content using visuals
Understanding key vocabulary
Reading for main ideas
Reading for details
Using your knowledge
Taking notes
Making inferences
Synthesizing

Language Development:
Energy collocations
Formal and informal academic verbs

Watch and Listen:
Wind Turbines

Special Features:
Critical Thinking
Collaboration

Unit 7 ART AND DESIGN (Academic Disciplines: Design / Fine Art)

Reading Passages:
1. All that Art Is (article)
2. Photography as Art (essay)

Key Reading Skills:
Scanning to find information

Additional Reading Skills:
Understanding key vocabulary
Predicting content using visuals
Reading for details
Taking notes
Making inferences
Using your knowledge
Reading for main ideas
Understanding paraphrase
Identifying opinions
Synthesizing

Language Development:
Paraphrasing
Vocabulary for art and design

Watch and Listen:
A Culinary Art Canvas

Special Features:
Critical Thinking
Collaboration

Unit 8 AGING (Academic Disciplines: Economics / Sociology)

Reading Passages:
1. The Social and Economic Impact of Aging (interview)
2. Saudi Arabia: The Realities of a Young Society (case study)

Key Reading Skills:
Using your knowledge to predict content

Additional Reading Skills:
Understanding key vocabulary
Reading for details
Making inferences
Taking notes on main ideas
Scanning to find information
Working out meaning
Synthesizing

Language Development:
Academic collocations with prepositions
Language of prediction

Watch and Listen:
Senior Exercise

Special Features:
Critical Thinking
Collaboration

Glossary of Key Vocabulary

Video Scripts

Credits

Advisory Panel