Contains readings in the categories of the humanities, social studies, science, and mathematics, each with several sub-categories, with exercises designed to help readers understand information in different content areas.

Levels E-F.

Unit 1. Plot. The professor of smells / by Lawrence Yep -- Unit 2. Character. Tuesday of the other June / by Norma Fox Mazer -- Unit 3. Setting. Almost a whole trickster / by Gerald Vizenor -- Unit 4. Conflict. President Cleveland, where are you? / by Robert Cormier -- Unit 5. The narrator. The tell-tale heart / by Edgar Allan Poe -- Catch the moon / by Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Unit 6. Theme. Many moons / by James Thurber -- The richer, the poorer / by Dorothy West -- Unit 7. Descriptive language. The long rain / by Ray Bradbury -- Unit 8. Discussing literature. Lob's girl / by Joan Aiken.