Twenty unabridged short stories, many of which are recognized masterpieces, provide the basis for student exchange and debate. Advanced students will sharpen their reading, speaking, vocabulary, and writing skills as they discover the pleasure and reward of reading fiction.

Newly revised, the All About the USA reading series features informative and entertaining readings about American people, places, and events, and promotes discussion and cross-cultural exchange. Vocabulary is carefully controlled at each level, while the language remains natural and lively. Topics include U.S. geography, rock music, the film industry, inventions, famous people, and new technology.

This cultural reader offers a unique snapshot of the U.S. — its people, institutions, and traditions — from a values-based perspective. A host of challenging exercises encourage students to reflect on their own values and experiences in relation to the ideas in the text.

The cross-cultural perspectives of the Contact USA series engage and educate students who can read and comprehend more English than they can produce.

The For Your Information Series helps students move beyond passive reading to become active, thoughtful, and confident readers of English. With updated reading selections and enhanced skill focus, the second edition of this popular series builds reading proficiency and vocabulary while encouraging students to think critically, express themselves, and interact.

Modern Dramas is a fast-paced contemporary story series that will keep your students turning the page for more. Each book in this four-level series tells the lively story of a memorable hero and other remarkable characters.

New Password moves students from 300-word vocabularies to the most common 2,000 words in English. Along the way, they also develop reading and vocabulary skills to prepare them for mainstream classes.

Reading Power delivers on that effective process approach with strategies and practice for strengthening comprehension skills, building vocabulary, increasing reading speed, and preparing for testing.

These engaging “believe-it-or-not” real-life, human-interest stories build students’ reading, writing, and speaking skills. Through humor, poignancy, or astonishment, students are guided through a carefully paced, step-by-step process to help them become fluent readers.

The two series — What A World and What A Life! — take a fresh approach to reading. High-interest topics ranging from biographies and history to cultures around the world make reading both motivating and pleasurable.

World of Reading helps students become better readers with its focus on a wide variety of genres and research-based vocabulary development. Based on the successful Building on Basics and Building Understanding, the series now takes on a third, low-intermediate Level 1