"Online Workbook Included" (Front Cover).

Scope and Sequence

How Prism Reading Works

What Makes Prism Reading Special

Unit 1 ANIMALS (Academic Disciplines: Ecology / Zoology)

Reading Passages
1. Endangered Species (article)
2. Losing the battle for Survival (article)

Key Reading Skills Reading for main ideas
Using a Venn Diagram

Additional Reading Skills
Understanding key Vocabulary
Using your knowledge
Reading for details
Working out meaning
Predicting content using visuals
Taking notes
Summarizing
Making inferences
Synthesizing

Language Development
Academic verbs
Comparative adjectives

Watch and Listen
Animal Teamwork

Special Features
Critical Thinking
Collaboration

Unit 2 THE ENVIRONMENT (Academic Disciplines: Environmental Science / Natural Science)

Reading Passages 1. Our Changing Planet (web page)
2. The Causes and effects of Deforestation (article)

Key Reading Skills
Reading for details
Taking notes on causes and effects

Additional Reading Skills
Understanding key vocabulary
Predicting content using visuals
Reading for main ideas
Scanning to find information
Identifying purpose
Previewing
Summarizing
Making inferences
Taking notes
Synthesizing

Language Development
Academic vocabulary
Environment collections

Watch and Listen
The Role of Water in U.S. Natural Wonders

Special Features
Critical thinking
Collaboration

Unit 3 TRANSPORTATION (Academic Disciplines: Transportation Management / Urban Planning)

Reading Passages
1. Masdar: the Future of Cities? (case study) 2. A reading about traffic congestion (essay)

Key Reading Skills
Predicting content using visuals

Additional Reading Skills Understanding key vocabulary
Reading for main ideas
Reading for details
Making inferences
Taking notes
Synthesizing

Language Development
Transportation collocations
Synonyms for verbs

Watch and Listen
The Jumbo Jet

Special Features
Critical thinking
Collaboration

Unit 4 CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS (Academic Disciplines: Cultural Studies / Sociology)

Reading Passages
1. Customs around the World (article)
2. Nontraditional Weddings (online article)

Key Reading Skills Annotating

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

Language Development Avoiding generalizations
Adverbs of frequency to avoid generalizations
Synonyms to avoid generalization

Watch and Listen
Halloween by the Numbers

Special Features
Critical thinking
Collaboration

Unit 5 HEALTH AND FITNESS (Academic Disciplines: Medicine / Nutrition)

Reading Passages
1. A reading about health and exercise (article)
2. Tackling Obesity (essay)

Key Reading Skills
Making inferences

Additional Reading Skills
Understanding key vocabulary
Predicting content using visuals
Skimming
Reading for main ideas
Reading for details
Using your knowledge
Scanning to predict content
Taking notes
Synthesizing

Language Development
Verb and noun
Health and fitness collocations

Watch and Listen
Nutrition Labels

Special Features
Critical thinking
Collaboration

Unit 6 DISCOVERY AND INVENTION (Academic Disciplines: Industrial Design / Mechanical Engineering)

Reading Passages
1. The Magic of Mimicry (article)
2. Technology of the Future (online article)

Key Reading Skills
Scanning to find information
Using a T-chart

Additional Reading Skills
Understanding key vocabulary
Previewing
Reading for main ideas
Annotating
Making inferences
Using your knowledge
Taking notes
Reading for details
Synthesizing

Language Development
Making predictions with modals and adverbs of certainty
Prefixes

Watch and Listen
China's Man-made River

Special Features
Critical thinking
Collaboration

Unit 7 FASHION (Academic Disciplines: Fashion Design / Retail Management)

Reading Passages
Is Fast Fashion Taking Over? (online article)
2. Offshore Textile Production: Why It Must Change (essay)

Key Reading Skills
Distinguishing fact from opinion

Additional Reading Skills
Understanding key vocabulary
Using your knowledge
Reading for main ideas
Reading for details
Making inferences
Skimming
Scanning to find information
Taking notes
Synthesizing

Language Development
Vocabulary for the fashion business

Watch and Listen
A Life Tailored Around Clothes

Special Features
Critical thinking
Collaboration

Unit 8 ECONOMICS (Academic Disciplines: Business / Economics)

Reading Passages
1. Investing: Two Alternatives to Consider (article)
2. What Has Happened to the American Dream? (online article)

Key Reading Passages
Skimming Understanding line graphs

Additional Reading Skills
Understanding key vocabulary
Using your knowledge
Reading for main ideas
Reading for details
Making inferences Scanning to find information
Annotating
Taking Notes
Synthesizing

Language Development
Nouns and adjectives got economics
Nouns for economic trends

Watch and Listen
The Stock Market Crash of 1929

Special Features
Critical thinking Collaboration

"Prism Reading Level 2 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)

For ESL students at the B1 (CEFR) level.