NorthStar: Focus on Reading and Writing (Student Book, Introductory Level)

With NorthStar, Second Edition (Series Editors: Frances Boyd and Carol Numrich), students explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series, now in its Second Edition, offers two strands: a reading and writing strand and a listening and speaking strand. Both strands stimulate students' imagination, encourage critical thinking, and promote personal expression.

Explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series, now in its Second Edition, offers two strands: a reading and writing strand and a listening and speaking strand. Both strands stimulate students' imagination, encourage critical thinking, and promote personal expression.

Revision Features

• New and updated high-interest topics motivate students to express their own points of view.
• Expanded vocabulary and pronunciation practice ensure greater language proficiency.
• A grammar correlation chart links NorthStar, Second Edition, to two leading grammar series: Focus on Grammar and the Azar Grammar series.
• The fully integrated approach includes a teacher's manual with achievement tests, process writing activity books, audio recordings of the main reading and listening sections, a new video program, and a Companion Website (with vocabulary worksheets, video worksheets, Internet activities, and other resources).