"Online Workbook Included" (Front Cover).

Scope and Sequence -- How Prism Reading Works -- What Makes Prism Reading Special

Unit 1 PRESERVATION (Academic Disciplines: Architecture / Information Technology / Urban Planning) Reading Passages: 1. Are We Living in the Digital Dark Ages? (article) -- 2. Build it up or Tear it down? (mixed texts)
Key Reading Skills: Identifying an argument -- Identifying supporting details
Additional Reading Skills: Using your knowledge -- Previewing -- Understanding key vocabulary -- Reading for main ideas -- Reading for details -- Annotating -- Making inferences -- Skimming -- Identifying purpose -- Synthesizing Language Development: Time expressions -- Compound adjectives
Watch and Listen: Preserving CDs at the Library of Congress Special Features: Critical Thinking -- Collaboration

Unit 2 EDUCATION (Academic Disciplines: Graphic Design / Marketing) Reading Passages: 1. What Makes a Successful Logo? (textbook excerpt) -- 2. Rebranding and Logos (textbook excerpt)
Key Reading Skills: Making inferences -- Using an outline to take notes
Additional Reading Skills: Using your knowledge -- Understanding key vocabulary -- Previewing -- Reading for main ideas -- Taking notes -- Identifying purpose -- Reading for details -- Synthesizing
Language Development: Describing emotional responses -- Paraphrasing
Watch and Listen: The Role of Helvetica Font in Graphic Design
Special Features: Critical Thinking -- Collaboration

Unit 3 PRIVACY (Academic Disciplines: Business / Criminal Justice / Media) Reading Passages: 1. Cyber Harassment (online article) -- 2. Combatting Cyber Harassment (article)
Key Reading Skills: Previewing -- Identifying purpose and tone
Additional Reading Skills: Understanding key vocabulary -- Using your knowledge -- Reading for main ideas -- Reading for details -- Taking notes -- Annotating -- Synthesizing Language Development: Collocations for behavior -- Problem-solution collocations
Watch and Listen: Computer Fraud: Celebrity Hacking
Special Features: Critical Thinking -- Collaboration

Unit 4 BUSINESS (Academic Disciplines: Business / Marketing / Social Media) Reading Passages: 1. Starting Out Mobile (online article) -- 2. Keeping Your Customers (article)
Key Reading Skills: Scanning
Additional Reading Skills: Using your knowledge -- Understanding key vocabulary -- Reading for main ideas -- Working out meaning -- Annotating -- Reading for details -- Making inferences -- Synthesizing
Language Development: Expressing contrast -- Business and marketing vocabulary
Watch and Listen: Florida Teen Buys Houses
Special Features: Critical Thinking -- Collaboration

Unit 5 PSYCHOLOGY (Academic Disciplines: Experimental Science / History / Neuroscience) Reading Passages: 1. Mental Illness and Creative Genius: Is There a Connection? (article) -- 2. The Creative Mind (online article)
Key Reading Skills: Using graphic organizers to take notes -- Interpreting quotes
Additional Reading Skills: Understanding key vocabulary -- Previewing -- Taking notes -- Making inferences -- Predicting content using visuals -- Reading for main ideas -- Reading for details -- Synthesizing Language Development: Experimental science vocabulary -- Complex noun phrases with what Watch and Listen: Interview with the Founders of IDEO Special Features: Critical Thinking -- Collaboration

Unit 6 CAREERS (Academic Disciplines: Business / Education / Information Technology) Reading Passages: 1. The Skills Gap (report) -- 2. What is the Value of Education? (article) Key Reading Skills: Interpreting graphical information
Additional Reading Skills: Understanding key vocabulary -- Predicting content using visuals -- Reading for main ideas -- Reading for details -- Annotating -- Identifying purpose and tone -- Making inferences -- Synthesizing Language Development: Complex noun phrases
Watch and Listen: Vocational Training
Special Features: Critical Thinking -- Collaboration

Unit 7 HEALTH SCIENCES (Academic Disciplines: Global Studies / Medicine) Reading Passages: 1. Superbugs (article) -- 2. The Globalization of Infection (article) Key Reading Skills: Recognizing discourse organization Additional Reading Skills: Using your knowledge -- Understanding key vocabulary -- Reading for main ideas -- Taking notes -- Making inferences -- Scanning to predict content -- Reading for details -- Synthesizing Language Development: Verbs and verb phrases for causation -- Health and medicine word families
Watch and Listen: Superbugs
Special Features: Critical Thinking -- Collaboration

Unit 8 COLLABORATION (Academic Disciplines: Business / Human Resources / Sports Management) Reading Passages: 1. The Value of Talent (article) -- 2. The Perfect Work Team; Getting the Best from a Group (article)
Key Reading Skills: Using context clues to understand terminology and fixed expressions
Additional Reading Skills: Understanding key vocabulary -- Previewing -- Reading for main ideas -- Summarizing -- Reading for details -- Working out meaning -- Using your knowledge -- Taking notes Language Development: Language for hedging
Watch and Listen: Office Space
Special Features: Critical Thinking -- Collaboration

Glossary of Key Vocabulary -- Video Scripts -- Credits -- Advisory Panel

"Prism Reading Level 4 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." (Book Cover)