Breakthroughs helps students master the essentials of math and problem-solving, sharpens critical-thinking skills for social studies, science, and reading, and develops effective writing skills. Pre- and Post-Tests accurately diagnose skill levels and assess mastery. Evaluation Charts correlated to the chapters to help identify areas for additional study and practice. Answer Keys allow students to check their own work for immediate feedback.

The Breakthroughs series improves students' content -area reading skills while building valuable problem solving proficiency. Breakthroughs in Critical Reading helps students learn to understand what they read by identifying the main idea and details, summarizing and paraphrasing, recognizing the organization of ideas, and more.

Breakthroughs helps students master the essentials of math and problem-solving, sharpens critical-thinking skills for social studies, science, and reading, and develops effective writing skills.

Adapting the methods of the much admired and extremely successful composition anthology Ways of Reading, this brief reader offers eight substantial essays about visual culture (illustrated with evocative photographs) along with demanding and innovative apparatus that engages students in conversations about the power of images.

This book combines a teaching text with exemplary reports of research and a literature review by international scholars.