Includes bibliographical references.

"Strategic Reading is a three-level series designed to develop reading, vocabulary-building, and critical thinking skills. The series is aimed at low-intermediate to high-intermediate young-adult and adult learners. Each level contains 16 thematic units with a selection of engaging topics that motivate learners to relate the readings to their own experiences. Three inviting reading passages in each unit, all adapted from authentic sources-including newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry-exposes learners to a wide range of writing styles.

Strategic Reading 3 is appropriate for intermediate to high-intermediate learners.

Features of the Student's Book:
Preview pages in every unit introduce new vocabulary and ask thought-provoking questions.
Pre-reading activities such as Predicting and Thinking about personal experience stimulate students' interest in the unit theme.
Reading exercises develop crucial skills such as Scanning, Understanding main ideas, and Understanding details, and give learners opportunities for discussion and writing. Vocabulary-building activities serve as a valuable link to the world outside the classroom.
Reading tips in every unit provide strategies to facilitate reading.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Authors' Acknowledgements

Scope and sequence

Introduction

Unit 1: Superstitions


Two worlds
Lucky hats and other fishing superstitions
A superstition about new calendars

Unit 2: Health
Diets of the world
Drink, blink and rest
Azeri hills hold secret of long life

Unit 3: Talent

A prodigy in mother's eyes
Born to paint
The sound of silence

Unit 4: Beauty


Executives go under the knife
What makes a man attractive?
In the land of the mirror

Unit 5: Technology


The car that thinks it's your friend
Identification, please!
Researchers worry as teens grow up online

Unit 6: Punishment
Spanking on trial
The Letter
Schools take the fun out of suspension

Unit 7: Loss
Death & superstition
Chapter Two
Funeral Blues; The Chariot

Unit 8: Memory
Can you believe what you see?
Man weds the wife he forgot
Repeat after me: Memory takes practice

Unit 9: Personality
What do our passions say about us?
The role of temperament in shaping individuality
Mind your P's and Q's

Unit 10: Celebrity

I'm just another kid from Brooklyn
California law has paparazzi shuddering
Fan club confessions

Unit 11: The circus

Getting serious about clowning
Circus town
Tragedy at the circus; Circus safe for animals

Unit 12: Martial arts
Shaolin Temple
The karate generation
Iron an silk

Unit 13: Fashion

Smart clothes
It's a dog's life
How to separate trends from fads

Unit 14: The media Something strange is happening to tabloids
When our world collide
Media violence harms children; Media violence does not harm children

Unit 15: Art


Girl with Pitcher
Organic architecture
How forgeries corrupt our museums

Unit 16: Humor

So, who's the comedian?
Taking humor seriously in the workplace
Three comedians

Acknowledgments

Intermediate to high-intermediate ESL students.