Leaders of the Americas
Reading and Vocabulary
William P. Pickett
low Intermediate to High Intermediate
Leaders of the Americas is a two-book intermediate reading and vocabulary
series. Students learn about historical figures of North and
South America while improving their reading skills, building
vocabulary, strengthening academic skills, and practicing test
taking.
Features
• Reading skills include drawing from background knowledge,
identifying main ideas and key details, predicting, and
inferencing
• Vocabulary building is taught through context-rich activities that
teach new vocabulary and follow-up activities that review and
apply key terms
• Academic skills include interpreting timelines, reading maps,
using glossaries and bibliographies, and researching topics
online
• Historical portraits, maps, and timelines provide interesting context and visual
support for the reading
• Engaging dialogues practice listening and speaking skills through
role-play
• Discussion and Writing encourages students to think critically,
share opinions, and write about the reading
• Test-taking is
practiced in a variety of formats, such as standardized
multiple-choice questions, fill-ins, matching, and true/false
• Further Reading and Websites provide
expansion opportunities and additional resources for students
and teachers
• Audio program contains
recordings of the readings and dialogs
