UNIT ONE 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: Will Spelling Count? 　Text B: How to Read Better and Faster 　Reading Skills: Contextual Clues to Word Meaning 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT TWO 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: The Book That Changed My Lives: An Introduction 　Text B: For the Love of Books 　Reading Skills: Guessing Word Meaning from Word Formation (I) 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT THREE 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: Giving Disorganized Boys the Tools for Success 　Text B: The Traditional Approach and Why It Doesn't Work 　Reading Skills: Guessing Word Meaning from Word Formation (II) 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT FOUR 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: Bringing the Best out of People 　Text B: Putting Feelings into Words 　Reading Skills: Guessing Word Meaning from Synonyms and Antonyms (I) 　Readings and Self-testing 　FIVE 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: Independence Day 　Text B: Independence Day (continued) 　Reading Skills: Guessing Word Meaning from Synonyms and Antonyms (II) 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT SIX 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self 　Text B: Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self (continued) 　Reading Skills: Recognizing Examples and Illustration 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT SEVEN 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: The Threat of Secondhand Smoke Justifies Smoking Restrictions 　Text B: Smoking Should Be Treated as Nicotine Addiction 　Reading Skills: Prediction 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT EIGHT 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: Channelled Whelk 　Text B: Never Say Never 　Reading Skills: Recognizing Restatement 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT NINE 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: An Honest Doubter 　Text B: My Friend Lodovico 　Reading Skills: Skimming 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT TEN 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: Own This Child 　Text B: Barbie to Baby Einstein: Get Over It 　Reading Skills: Scanning 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT ELEVEN 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: Australia: An Underappreciated Nation 　Text B: Towards One Destiny 　Reading Skills: Summarizing (I) 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT TWELVE 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: On Seeing England for the First Time 　Text B: Welcome to St Paul's 　Reading Skills: Summarizing (II) 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT THIRTEEN 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: A Granddaughter's Fear 　Text B: On the Verge of Adulthood: Older Teens and the Library 　Reading Skills: Recognizing Sequence (I) 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT FOURTEEN 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: Joyas Voladoras 　Text B: Leader of the Pack: The Fascinating Lives of Wolves 　Reading Skills: Recognizing Sequence (II) 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT FIFTEEN 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: 86,400 Hours 　Text B: Men and Women Talking on the Job 　Reading Skills: Signal Words (I) 　Readings and Self-testing UNIT SIXTEEN 　Thinking Starters 　Text A: Gravity 　Text B: What If It Happens in Your Family? 　Reading Skills: Signal Words (II) 　Readings and Self-testing