Contemporary Critical Readingequips students with the critical reading, writing, thinking, and problem-solving skills essential to understanding and responding to current issues and ideas.

Complete Pre-GED is a comprehensive review of the skills necessary for GED study. This one-stop text for basic skill mastery includes instruction and practice for all the concepts and skills students need. Sections for writing skills, social studies, science, literature and the arts, and mathematics offer a complete text for GED-skill comprehension. Diagnostic pre-tests, post-tests and evaluations charts, and an index ensure accurate placement and prescription for each subject.

Critical Reading, Critical Thinking uses compelling contemporary issues to engage students in reading and thinking about a range of relevant topics and encourages them to apply the skills presented in the text to everyday issues. Each passage or reading is followed by thought-provoking questions that motivate students to use higher-level thinking strategies to address or respond to the issue.

PRE-GED Satellite Program - Subject-area basics that move students up to GED preparation. Developmental content-area instruction targets essential skills and builds in-depth student knowledge in the content areas. Pre- and Post-tests help students decide which skills need the most work, and allow them to assess mastery of each subject area. Controlled reading levels 5-8 encourage further learning and comprehension. Complete answer key supplies answers and explanations for all the questions in the book. Extensive visual aids offer instruction in interpreting maps, charts, tables, cartoons, and graphs, and applying information. Writing skills strengthens essential grammar, usage, and writing skills: sentence basics, using verbs, modifiers, sentence structure, capitalization and punctuation, patterns of organization, the process of writing, spelling, and journal writing. Social studies builds the critical-thinking skills necessary to comprehend, apply, analyze, and evaluate social studies materials--including passages, graphs, charts, and maps--in the areas of U.S. history, political science, behavioral sciences, geography, and economics. Science sharpens students' ability to apply critical-thinking skills--comprehension, application, analysis, and evaluation--to passages and graphics about biology, earth science, chemistry, and physics. Literature and the Arts focuses on the comprehension, application, analysis, and evaluation skills needed to successfully understand literature and arts materials: fiction and nonfiction prose, poetry, drama, and commentaries on the arts. Mathematics increases students' mastery and confidence in their ability to perform operations and solve problems involving whole numbers, decimals, fractions and mixed numbers, measurement and geometry, ratios, proportions, and percents, data analysis and probability, basic algebra concepts.