Pathways Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking Foundations Teacher´s Guide

Pathways is National Geographic Learning's new five-level academic skills series that features reading & writing and listening & speaking strands to help learners develop the language skills needed to achieve academic success. Learners develop academic literacy skills through content, images and video from National Geographic. This innovative series provides learners with a pathway to success!

With Pathways learners:
DEVELOP academic literacy skills
CONNECT to the real world through content from National Geographic
ACHIEVE academic success

• National Geographic articles, video, maps, and graphs engage students with academic content in a variety of genres and formats.
• Clear connections between reading and writing skills help students become more effective readers and writers.
• Academic reading skills and strategies, embedded in the unit tasks, prepare students to comprehend a variety of realistic academic texts.
• Step-by-step writing instruction, with integrated grammar and vocabulary, provides practice of a variety of rhetorical forms modeled on the academic classroom.
• Integrated critical thinking tasks develop learners’ ability to evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information from a wide range of sources.

The Teacher's Guide is available for each level in an easy-to-use design and includes teacher's notes, expansion activities, and answer keys for activities in the Student Books.