NorthStar is a five-level, two-strand (Reading & Writing and Listening & Speaking) integrated-skills English course that empowers adult and young adult English language learners to achieve their academic and personal goals. Engaging content, integrated skills, and critical thinking continue to be the touchstones of the series.NorthStar is rigorous in its approach to critical thinking by systematically engaging students in tasks and activities ...
NorthStar, Fourth Edition, a five-level series, engages students through authentic and compelling content and empowers them to achieve their academic and personal goals. The approach to critical thinking in both the Reading/Writing and Listening/Speaking strands challenges students to move beyond basic comprehension to higher-level analysis.Conceptualized to promote critical thinking, NorthStar infuses analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and appl...
The NorthStar DVD has engaging, authentic video clips, including animation, documentaries, interviews, and biographies, that correspond to the themes in NorthStar. Each theme contains three- to five-minute segment that can be used with either the Reading and Writing strand or the Listening and Speaking strand. The video clips can also be viewed in MyNorthStarLab. NorthStar, now in its third edition, motivates students to succeed in their acade...
NorthStar, now in its third edition, motivates students to achieve in their academic as well as their personal language goals providing a fully-integrated approach in five levels with two complementary strands: Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking.