Includes index.

"Pathways is National Geographic Learning's new five-level academic skills series that features reading & writing and listening & speaking strands to help learners develop the language skills needed to achieve academic success. Learners develop academic literacy skills through content, images and video from National Geographic. This innovative series provides learners with a pathway to success!

With Pathways learners:
DEVELOP academic literacy skills

CONNECT to the real world through content from National Geographic
ACHIEVE academic success

Features:
National Geographic articles, video, maps, and graphs engage students with academic content in a variety of genres and formats.
Clear connections between reading and writing skills help students become more effective readers and writers.
Academic reading skills and strategies, embedded in the unit tasks, prepare students to comprehend a variety of realistic academic texts.
Step-by-step writing instruction, with integrated grammar and vocabulary, provides practice of a variety of rhetorical forms modeled on the academic classroom.
Integrated critical thinking tasks develop learners’ ability to evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information from a wide range of sources." (Book Cover)

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

Unit 1 SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
Academic Track: Interdisciplinary

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS:
Lesson A: Identifying main and supporting ideas - Evaluating supporting arguments
Lesson B: Understanding related science news reports
Lesson C: Reviewing paragraph writing - Writing a comparison paragraph

VOCABULARY: Understanding meaning from context - Matching words with definitions - Applying vocabulary in a personalized context - Word Link: pre- - Word Partners: cooperate

READING: Responding to text and photos - Skimming to make predictions - Identifying main ideas and key details - Identifying supporting ideas - Identifying meaning from context - Skill Focus: Identifying main and supporting ideas

WRITING: Goal: Writing about similarities and differences - Language: Making comparisons - Skill: Reviewing paragraph writing

VIEWING: Video: Elephant Orphans - Relating video content to a reading text - Viewing for general understanding and specific information

CRITICAL THINKING: Analyzing a text to identify function - Synthesizing information to identify similarities - Relating ideas to personal experience - CT Focus: Evaluating supporting arguments

Unit 2 SCIENCE AND DETECTION
Academic Track: History/Life Science

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS:
Lesson A: Identifying a sequence of events - Distinguishing fact from speculation
Lesson B: Understanding a personal narrative/opinion article
Lesson C: Planning and writing an opinion paragraph

VOCABULARY: Understanding meaning from context - Matching words with definitions - Applying vocabulary in a personalized context - Word Link: extra-, com-/con-

READING: Responding to text and photos - Skimming to make predictions - Identifying main ideas and supporting details - Sequencing historical events - Skill Focus: Identifying a sequence of historical events

WRITING: Goal: Writing an opinion paragraph about research - Language: Review of modals of obligation and possibility - Skill: Writing an opinion paragraph

VIEWING: Video: Columbus DNA - Relating video content to a reading text - Viewing for general understanding and specific information

CRITICAL THINKING: Interpreting evidence - Inferring attitude - Synthesizing information to make comparisons - Analyzing a text to identify sentence types - CT Focus: Distinguishing fact from speculation

Unit 3 CITY SOLUTIONS
Academic Track: Sociology

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS:
Lesson A: Identifying reasons - Evaluating sources
Lesson B: Reading an interview
Lesson C: Writing a thesis statement - Writing a descriptive paragraph

VOCABULARY: Understanding meaning from context - Matching words with definitions - Applying vocabulary in a personalized context - Word Partners: income, majority

READING: Identifying supporting details - Skimming to make predictions - Identifying supporting details and reasons - Identifying meaning from context - Interpreting maps - Skill Focus: Identifying reasons

WRITING: Goal: Writing a descriptive paragraph about a city - Language: Using the simple past and used to - Skill: Writing a thesis statement

VIEWING: Video: Solar Solutions - Relating video content to a reading text - Viewing for general understanding and specific information

CRITICAL THINKING: Synthesizing information and justifying an opinion - Relating ideas to personal experience - CT Focus: Evaluating sources

Unit 4 DANGER ZONES
Academic Track: Earth Science

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS
Lesson A: Organizing your notes - Analyzing and evaluating evidence
Lesson B: Interpreting information in a multimodal text
Lesson C: Writing an introductory paragraph - Writing opinion paragraphs

VOCABULARY: Understanding meaning from context - Matching words with definitions - Applying vocabulary in a personalized context - Word Link: vict/vinc - Word Partners: tend (to)

READING: Interpreting map and textual information - Understanding infographics - Identifying main ideas - Using titles and visuals to make predictions - Scanning for key details - Understanding a process - Identifying supporting ideas and reasons - Skill Focus: Organizing your notes

WRITING: Goal: Writing opinion paragraphs with recommendations - Language: Using parallel structure - Skill: Writing an introductory paragraph

VIEWING: Video: Hurricanes - Viewing to confirm predictions - Relating video content to a reading text - Viewing for general understanding and specific information

CRITICAL THINKING: Synthesizing information from multiple sources - Interpreting infographics to understand a process - CT Focus: Analyzing and evaluating evidence

Unit 5 THE BUSINESS OF TOURISM
Academic Track: Economics/Business

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS:
Lesson A: Analyzing causes and effects - Analyzing a writer's argument
Lesson B: Reading related travel news reports
Lesson C: Writing well-developed body paragraphs - Writing a short cause-effect essay

VOCABULARY: Understanding meaning from context - Matching words with definitions - Applying vocabulary in a personalized context - Word Link: mot, dom/domin

READING: Interpreting map and charts - Identifying main ideas and supporting details - Predicting the content of a reading - Identifying meaning from context - Skill Focus: Analyzing causes and effects

WRITING: Goal: Writing a short essay about geotourism - Language: Using If... (then)... - Skill: Writing well-developed body paragraphs

VIEWING: Video: Galapagos Tourism - Viewing to confirm predictions - Relating video content to a reading text - Viewing for general understanding and specific information

CRITICAL THINKING: Synthesizing information from multiple sources - Relating ideas to personal experience - Making inferences - CT Focus: Analyzing a writer's argument

Unit 6 LANDSCAPE AND IMAGINATION
Academic Track: Literature/Humanities

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS:
Lesson A: Understanding referencing and cohesion - Understanding figurative languages
Lesson B: Interpreting a travel narrative and a novel extract
Lesson C: Writing a concluding paragraph - Writing an explanatory essay

VOCABULARY: Understanding meaning from context - Matching words with definitions - Applying vocabulary in a personalized context - Word Link: vid/vis, migr-

READING: Responding to text and photos - Using captions and visuals to make predictions - Identifying main ideas - Identifying supporting details - Understanding similes - Identifying meaning from context - Identifying events to complete a timeline - Skill Focus: Understanding referencing and cohesion

WRITING: Goal: Writing an explanatory essay about literature - Language: Adding information with appositive phrases - Skill: Writing a concluding paragraph

VIEWING: Video: Rock Artists of Australia - Viewing to confirm predictions - Relating video content to a reading text - Viewing for general understanding and specific information

CRITICAL THINKING: Making inferences - Personalizing information in a reading - Identifying similes - CT Focus: Understanding figurative language

Unit 7 GLOBAL APPETITES
Academic Track: Interdisciplinary

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS:
Lesson A: Interpreting visual information - Inferring a writer's tone and purpose
Lesson B: Understanding an environmental report
Lesson C: Using an outline to plan an essay - Writing a persuasive essay

VOCABULARY: Understanding meaning from context - Matching words with definitions - Using new vocabulary in everyday context - Word Partners: intensive, negative

READING: Understanding infographics - Identifying key details - Using titles and visuals to make predictions - Identifying meaning from context - Identifying main ideas - Skill Focus: Interpreting visual information

WRITING: Goal: Writing a persuasive essay - Language: Using adjective clauses to add information - Skill: Using an outline to plan an essay

VIEWING: Video: The Greendex - Relating video content to a reading text - Viewing for general understanding and specific information

CRITICAL THINKING: Synthesizing information from multiple sources - Personalizing information in a reading - Justifying an opinion - CT Focus: Inferring a writer's tone and purpose

Unit 8 MEDICAL INNOVATORS
Academic Track: Health/Medicine

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS:
Lesson A: Finding subjects in complex sentences - Making inferences
Lesson B: Understanding an article on technology
Lesson C: Researching information for an essay - Writing a research-based essay

VOCABULARY: Understanding meaning from context - Matching words with definitions - Applying vocabulary in a personalized context - Word Link: trans-; labor - Word Partners: procedure

READING: Understanding information in a timeline - Identifying supporting details - Identifying meaning from context - Identifying main ideas - Skimming to make predictions - Using visual and textual clues to make predictions - Understanding referencing - Skill Focus: Finding subjects in complex sentences

WRITING: Goal: Writing a research-based essay about an innovator - Language: Referring to sources using quotes and paraphrases - Skill: Researching information for an essay

VIEWING: Video: Healthcare Innovator - Relating video content to a reading text - Viewing for general understanding and specific information

CRITICAL THINKING: Synthesizing information from multiple sources - Relating ideas to personal experience - Inferring a writer's audience - Inferring the purpose of an anecdote - CT Focus: Making inferences

Unit 9 WORLD LANGUAGES
Academic Track: Anthropology/Linguistics

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS:
Lesson A: Understanding degrees of certainty - Considering counterarguments
Lesson B: Understanding a persuasive text
Lesson C: Using a graphic organizer to plan an essay - Writing an argument essay

VOCABULARY: Understanding meaning from context - Matching words with definitions - Using new vocabulary in everyday context - Word Link: lingu - Word Partners: attitude

READING: Identifying supporting details - Identifying meaning from context - Identifying main ideas - Interpreting maps and charts - Interpreting visual information - Skill Focus: Understanding degrees of certainty

WRITING: Goal: Writing a persuasive essay about language - Language: Using words and phrases for presenting counterarguments - Skill: Using a graphic organizer to plan an essay

VIEWING: Video: Enduring Voices - Relating video content to a reading text - Viewing for general understanding and specific information - Using Prior Knowledge

CRITICAL THINKING: Synthesizing information from multiple sources - Applying information to own experience - Understanding predictors - CT Focus: Considering counterarguments

Unit 10 SURVIVAL INSTINCT
Academic Track: Psychology

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS:
Lesson A: Identifying adverbial phrases - Inferring a writer's purpose
Lesson B: Understanding a factual text and personal narrative
Lesson C: Planning and writing a descriptive narrative

VOCABULARY: Understanding meaning from context - Using new vocabulary in everyday context - Brainstorming words to describe emotions - Word Link: sci - Word Partners: reaction

READING: Identifying meaning from context - Identifying key details - Responding to text and photos - Using visual and textual clues to make predictions - Identifying main ideas of paragraphs - Organizing information in a Venn diagram - Skill Focus: Identifying adverbial phrases

WRITING: Goal: Writing a descriptive narrative essay to describe a real-life event - Language: Using past forms for narration - Skill: Planning a descriptive narrative

VIEWING: Video: Survival Lessons - Viewing to confirm predictions - Relating video content to a reading text - Viewing for general understanding and specific information

CRITICAL THINKING: Classifying information using a graphic organizer - Synthesizing information to make judgments - CT Focus: Inferring the purpose of stories and anecdotes