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Prism Reading
Prism Reading helps learners develop a range of academic and critical thinking skills to build confidence and prepare for college courses.
Captivating readings, videos, academic reading skills, strategies, and development of critical thinking skills in Prism Reading help students become well-rounded thinkers and build confidence to succeed in and outside the classroom. Topics, vocabulary, academic skills and integration of critical thinking skills to prepare learners for college courses were based on extensive research with teachers at over 500 institutions. Each Student's Book includes access to the automatically-graded Digital Workbook with additional practice and one extra reading for each unit, downloadable audio, and an eBook with audio and video.
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Authors: Kate Adams, Sabina Ostrowska, Michele Lewis, Richard O'Neill, Lida Baker, Carolyn Westbrook, Alan S. Kennedy, Chris Sowton, Jessica Williams
CEFR Levels: A1 - C1Key Features
Engaging visuals, learning objectives, and connecting student’ knowledge and the unit theme generates interest and motivates learners.A wide variety of reading genres in different formats expose and prepare students to understand real-life texts they may face in or outside the classroom.Students work together to apply new skills and language in task-based collaborative activities that extend each reading and video.Prism Reading is part of a learning experience that could only come from Cambridge
It's shaped by unique insights from our extensive research and expertise, all to enable teachers to do what they do best - teach - and learners to reach their full potential.
Insights
Informed by teachersTopics, vocabulary, academic and critical thinking activities to build students’ confidence and prepare them for college courses were shaped by conversations with teachers at over 500 institutions.
Research-based
Carefully selected vocabulary students need to be successful in college are based on the General Service List, the Academic Word List, and the Cambridge English Corpus.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Critical thinking exercises are based on Benjamin Bloom's classification of learning objectives.Â
Content
Capturing interestStudents experience the topics and expand their vocabulary through captivating readings and a video that pulls together everything they have learned in the unit, while developing academic reading and critical thinking skills.
Extended Learning with the Digital Workbook
The Digital Workbook has one extra reading and additional practice for each unit. Automated feedback gives autonomy to studens while allowing teachers to spend less time grading and more time teaching.
Presentation Plus
Teachers can deliver effective and engaging lessons by showing the Student's Book pages and playing the audio and video at the point of use with just one click.
Videos from authentic sources
Engaging videos at the end of each unit help students synthesize and expand on ideas, language, and skills they have learned.
Results
Path to Better LearningStudents develop both critical thinking and academic reading skills they can apply to read, understand, and analyze university texts with confidence, helping them achieve academic success.
Building confidence
Readings from a variety of academic disciplines in different formats (essays, articles, website, etc.) expose and prepare students to comprehend real-life text they may face in or outside the classroom
Student progress
Gradebook in the Digital Workbook allows teachers to track how students are doing, while quizzes help assess student's progress after every unit.
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World of Better LearningHow to teach remotely using Prism Reading Posted by Emily White We continue to release our ‘how to’ guides to support teachers working with our course books …
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