Features
- Vocabulary Preview activities presenting synonyms and helpful contexts for key vocabulary
- Language Focus activities to develop learners’ understanding of usage and meaning of grammatical structures that appear in the reading passage 
- Picture Story activities to support students oral retelling of stories and sentence writing 
- Dialog activities to encourage practice of oral fluency and pronunciation 
- Summary activities to reinforce key vocabulary acquisition 
- Expansion activities to allow students to creatively practice language skills through group work

Unit Structure
- Pre-Reading: Think about and discuss 3 questions related to the picture prompt with a partner
- Vocabulary Preview:  Match each underlined word with its meaning
- Understanding the Key Ideas:  Multiple choice questions based on the reading passage
- Reading Comprehension:  Further comprehension questions using True/False, multiple choice, and proverb selection
- Language Focus: Choose the best word to complete each sentence based on a salient grammatical structure from the reading
- Picture Story: Number the given pictures in the correct order according to the story, and then discuss each picture with a partner
- Act Out the Story:  Fill in the blanks to complete a roleplay between the characters from the reading
- Summary:  A paraphrased summary of the story, with an opportunity to re-order the sentences, or fill in the gaps, or replace incorrect information
- Expansion Questions:  Opportunity to discuss further questions related to the reading theme using picture prompts and guided questions