This document provides an overview of the On Point Critical Thinking Skills for Reading series which teaches upper-intermediate and advanced readers to analyze and critically evaluate opinions on a wide range of topics. The series uses articles from popular media outlets and includes engaging activities to build reading and thinking skills, guided writing tasks, vocabulary building, and stimulating discussion activities. It provides student and workbook materials as well as a website and app.

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2. Contents
• Overview
• Key Features
• Walkthrough
• Student Book
• Workbook
• Website and App

3. Overview
On Point Critical Thinking Skills for
Reading teaches upper-intermediate and
advanced readers to analyze, critically
evaluate, and intelligently supported
opinions on a wide range of high-interest
topics, This series is built around articles
from popular media outlets, such as The
Atlantic, The Independent, and The
Telegraph.

4. Key Features
• Engaging activities to build specific reading and
thinking skills
• Guided writing tasks related to each topic
• Systematic building of academic vocabulary
• Stimulating discussion activities to help
students form and support their opinions
• Margin questions and footnote definitions to aid
reading comprehension
• Online materials available

5. UNIT TOPICS
Topics discuss a wide variety of
contemporary issues that are
cognitively appropriate and interesting
to learners in the target age group.
THINK ABOUT IT
A thought-provoking question serves
as focus for the entire unit.
QUOTE
Quotes can generate discussion and
interest in the unit topic.
Student Book

6. LEAD-IN ACTIVITIES
Pre-reading exercises activate prior
knowledge and relate the topic to
students’ own lives.
Student Book
LEARNING GOALS
A clear outline of the learning
objectives help students to keep the
big picture in mind as they progress.

7. VOCABULARY PREVIEW
Paraphrased sentences from the
reading passage present a preview of
key academic target words in context.
Activities get students to practice
using context clues to determine the
meaning of the key word before
encountering them in the passage.
READING PREVIEW
Short pair-work activity to predict
content, generate interest, and
activate prior knowledge.
Student Book

8. REAL-LIFE READINGS
Reading passages from online
magazines, blogs, newspapers, and
textbooks explore a wide range of
engaging relevant topics.
GUIDING QUESTIONS
Questions in the margin encourage
students to pause and assess their
reading comprehension, annotate the
text, and apply critical thinking skills
that they have learned.
Student Book

9. MAPPING IDEAS
Graphic organizers help students
organize the information and ideas
they have read and gain familiarity
with note-taking and common text
organizations.
FOCUS ON CONTENT
Comprehension questions consolidate
and assess students’ understanding of
the main ideas and key details in the
reading.
Student Book
READING SKILLS WORKSHEETS
A worksheet builds reading skills with
activities based on content from the
reading. Printed in a handy Skills
Workbook to facilitate marking.

10. Student Book
FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION
A key passage from the reading
serves as taking-off point for a
discussion activity, enabling students
to think about and discuss the issues
presented in relation to their own lives.
Book

11. Workbook
SECOND READING
A second, carefully-leveled reading
presents a different perspective on the
same topic.
FOOTNOTE DEFINITIONS
Challenging words and expressions
are defined in the text to help students
improve comprehension an build their
vocabulary.
Student Book

12. Workbook
DIVERSE QUESTION FORMATS
Comprehension questions expose
students to a wide range of formats to
enhance their test-taking skills.
Student Book

13. Workbook
BUILDING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Easy-to-understand lessons introduce
the fundamentals of critical thinking,
from recognizing and assessing
arguments to understanding evidence
and statistics.
Student Book
IDEAS IN ACTION
Ideas in Action gets learners to
answer questions about the overall
topic of the unit.

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INTEGRATED WRITING ACTIVITIES
Students can make use of the critical
thinking skills and ideas they have
been exposed to in the unit to write a
response to the unit’s focus question.
A writing worksheet in the Skill
Workbook helps students formulate
their ideas.

15. Workbook
DEVELOPING READING SKILLS
Lessons and activities in the Skills
Workbook help students improve their
reading comprehension by focusing
on key reading skills.
Skills Workbook

16. Workbook
GUIDED WRITING
A writing worksheet provides guidance
and a framework for students to
express their own opinions about the
topic of the unit.
Skills Workbook

17. Online

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