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Q: Skills for Success

Second Edition
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE | Reading and Writing 2

UNIT READING WRITING VOCABULARY GRAMMAR CRITICAL THINKING UNIT OUTCOME


 Identify the main idea of a  Write a descriptive  Distinguish word forms  Present continuous  Reflect on the unit question  Write a paragraph
1 Marketing paragraph paragraph (nouns, verbs) to expand  Connect ideas across texts or describing a current
 Preview text using a variety of  Write paragraphs of vocabulary Match readings trend and why it is
strategies different genres definitions  Apply unit tips and use IQ popular
 Read for main ideas  Plan before writing  Define new terms Online to become a strategic
Why does something  Read for details  Revise, edit, and  Understand meaning from learner
become popular?  Activate schema with rewrite context  Set and achieve goals
photos/pictures  Give feedback to peers  Assess your prior  Support opinions with
 Use glosses and footnotes to and self-assess knowledge of vocabulary reasons
READING 1: aid comprehension  Write a topic sentence  Complete a T-chart to
 Learn selected vocabulary
Unusual Ideas to Make a  Read and recognize different to convey ideas clearly categorize information
words from the Oxford
Buzz text types
3000 and the Academic
(online article)  Make predictions before
reading Word List
 Order ideas to recognize
READING 2: sequence
How Do You Decide?
(magazine article)

 Get meaning from context  Use free writing and  Learn suffixes to expand  Future with will  Reflect on the unit question  Create a business and
2 Psychology  Use context to understand idea maps to vocabulary  Connect ideas across texts or write a description
unfamiliar words while brainstorm ideas  Complete a chart to readings explaining the colors
reading. before writing identify word forms  Apply unit tips and use IQ you will use and why
 Preview text using a variety of  Write a business  Match definitions Online to become a strategic
How do colors affect the strategies proposal  Define new terms learner
way we feel?  Read for main ideas  Write paragraphs of  Understand meaning from  Set and achieve goals
 Read for details different genres context  Relate information from
 Activate schema with  Plan before writing  Assess your prior reading to self
READING 1: photos/pictures  Revise, edit, and knowledge of vocabulary
How Colors Make Us Think  Read and recognize different rewrite  Learn selected vocabulary
and Feel text types  Give feedback to peers words from the Oxford
(textbook article)  Complete a chart to organize and self-assess 3000 and the Academic
information from reading Word List
READING 2:
The Importance of Color in
Business
(magazine article)

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UNIT READING WRITING VOCABULARY GRAMMAR CRITICAL THINKING UNIT OUTCOME
 Identify supporting details to  Support main ideas  Prefixes  Subject-verb  Reflect on the unit question  Write a paragraph with
3 Social Psychology aid comprehension with examples  Assess your prior agreement  Connect ideas across texts or supporting examples in
 Preview text using a variety of  Complete a cluster knowledge of vocabulary readings response to a question
strategies diagram before writing  Learn selected vocabulary  Apply unit tips and use IQ on an online discussion
 Read for main ideas  Plan before writing words from the Oxford Online to become a strategic forum.
What does it mean to be  Read for details  Revise, edit, and 3000 and the Academic learner
polite?  Activate schema with rewrite Word List  Set and achieve goals
photos/pictures  Give feedback to peers  Support opinions with
 Read and recognize different and self-assess reasons or examples
READING 1:
text types
Being Polite from Culture to
Culture
(magazine article)

READING 2:
Answers to All Your Travel
Questions
(online discussion group)

 Take notes to retain  Write an opinion  Use the dictionary  Modals  Reflect on the unit question  Write an opinion
4 Sociology information paragraph  Assess your prior  Connect ideas across texts or paragraph about what
 Use a graphic organizer to  Plan before writing knowledge of vocabulary readings makes a competition
categorize information from a  Revise, edit, and  Learn selected vocabulary  Apply unit tips and use IQ unfair.
rewrite words from the Oxford Online to become a strategic
reading
What makes a competition  Give feedback to peers 3000 and the Academic learner
 Preview text using a variety of and self-assess  Set and achieve goals
unfair? strategies
Word List
 Support opinions with
 Read for main ideas reasons, examples, or
READING 1:  Read for details supporting details
Money and Sports
(magazine article)

READING 2:
The Technology Advantage
(online article)

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UNIT READING WRITING VOCABULARY GRAMMAR CRITICAL THINKING UNIT OUTCOME
 Skim a text to get the general  Unity in a paragraph  Use the dictionary  Comparative and  Reflect on the unit question  Write a plan for a new
5 Business idea  Plan before writing  Assess your prior superlative adjectives  Connect ideas across texts or family business.
 Use a chart to compare  Revise, edit, and knowledge of vocabulary readings
information across readings rewrite  Learn selected vocabulary  Apply unit tips and use IQ
 Preview text using a variety of  Give feedback to peers words from the Oxford Online to become a strategic
What makes a family strategies and self-assess 3000 and the Academic learner
business successful?  Read for main ideas Word List  Set and achieve goals
 Read for details  Support opinions with
 Activate schema with reasons and examples
READING 1: photos/pictures  Relate information from
Family Unity Builds Success  Use glosses and footnotes to reading to self
(magazine article) aid comprehension  Compare information using a
 Read and recognize different chart
text types
READING 2:
The Challenge of Running a
Family Business
(textbook article)

 Identify the author’s purpose  Describe a process  Use the dictionary to  Infinitives of purpose  Reflect on the unit question  Write a paragraph
6 Information for writing a text  Plan before writing distinguish words with  Connect ideas across texts or describing the steps of
Technology  Preview text using a variety of  Revise, edit, and multiple meanings readings a process performed by
strategies rewrite  Match definitions  Apply unit tips and use IQ either a person or a
 Read for main ideas  Give feedback to peers  Define new terms Online to become a strategic machine
Do you prefer to get help  Read for details and self-assess  Understand meaning from learner
from a person or a machine?  Activate schema with  Set and achieve goals
context
photos/pictures  Support opinions with
 Assess your prior reasons and examples
READING 1:  Use glosses and footnotes to knowledge of vocabulary
aid comprehension  Complete a chart to identify
Memo to Restaurant  Learn selected vocabulary steps in a process
 Read and recognize different
Servers text types words from the Oxford
(business memo) 3000 and the Academic
Word List
READING 2:
I Hate Machines!
(excerpt from a blog)

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UNIT READING WRITING VOCABULARY GRAMMAR CRITICAL THINKING UNIT OUTCOME
 Distinguish between fact and  Use sentence variety  Phrasal verbs  Simple past and past  Discuss advantages and  Write paragraphs that
7 Environmental Studies opinion to read critically  Plan before writing  Match definitions continuous disadvantages state and supports your
 Preview text using a variety of  Revise, edit, and  Define new terms  Apply unit tips and use IQ opinion
strategies rewrite Online to become a strategic
 Understand meaning from
 Read for main ideas  Give feedback to peers learner
Is it better to save what you and self-assess context  Relate information from
 Read for details
have or buy new things?  Assess your prior reading to self
 Activate schema with
photos/pictures knowledge of vocabulary  Support opinions with
 Use glosses and footnotes to  Learn selected vocabulary reasons
READING 1:
aid comprehension words from the Oxford
Think Before You Toss  Read and recognize different 3000 and the Academic
(magazine article) text types Word List

READING 2:
In Praise of the Throwaway
Society
(blog post)

 Synthesize information  Write an explanatory  Learn verb + preposition  Adverbs of manner  Support opinions with  Create a FAQ
8 Public Health  Complete a Venn diagram to paragraph collocations to expand and degree reasons and examples (Frequently Asked
find similarities and  Write an FAQ page vocabulary  Apply unit tips and use IQ Questions) page about
 Plan before writing Online to become a strategic an illness that includes
differences in text  Match definitions
 Revise, edit, and learner a paragraph-long
How can we prevent  Preview text using a variety of  Define new terms  Relate information in reading definition of your topic
rewrite
strategies
 Give feedback to peers  Understand meaning from to self
diseases?  Read for main ideas
and self-assess context  Complete a flow chart to
 Read for details
 Write a definition  Assess your prior display details
READING 1:  Activate schema with paragraph knowledge of vocabulary
Flu FAQ (Frequently Asked photos/pictures
 Analyze the structure  Learn selected vocabulary
 Use glosses and footnotes to
Questions) of definitions
words from the Oxford
aid comprehension
(online FAQ)  Read and recognize different 3000 and the Academic
text types Word List
READING 2:
Watching Over the Health of
Millions
(magazine article)

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