Pathways Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking is a best-selling, five-level academic skills series that combines highly visual, real-world content and rigorous language instruction to help students develop the skills, language, and critical thinking they need for academic success. Exploring academic topics through authentic readings, videos, photos, and infographics, students connect to ideas while building academic competence skills through collaboration, communication, and problem-solving. Pathways helps students to improve the academic and interpersonal skills needed to succeed in and out of the classroom.

NEW in Pathways: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking

• Relatable academic readings engage students and inform them on various topics, while helping improve reading comprehension skills to succeed in and out of the classroom.
• The Writing section provides even more guided instruction, explicit models, and practice opportunities to equip students with the skills needed to become effective writers.
• The new Review section includes self-assessment activities that encourage students to reflect on what they have learned and what they need to continue to work on in their learning journey.
• The Spark platform delivers your digital tools for every stage of teaching and learning, including auto-graded Online Practice activities, customizable Assessment Suite tests, quizzes and exams, Student's eBook, Classroom Presentation Tool, and downloadable Teacher's Resources.

Pathways New Wraparound Teacher's Book includes:

• An overview of the principles that shape the series
• The approach to assessment in Pathways
• A Pacing Guide that offers varied teaching times to fit your program's needs
• Unit-by-unit instruction with suggestions for expanding activities
• Teaching Tips to promote teaching strategies like observation, feedback, and classroom management
• Answers on the Student's Book page for ease of access
• Formative Assessment throughout to check students' understanding and guide instruction
• Scripted language to facilitate lessons