Explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series 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.

Features and Benefits

• F New and updated high-interest topics.
• B Motivate students to express their own points of view.

• F Expanded vocabulary and pronunciation practice.
• B Ensures greater language proficiency.

• F Grammar correlation chart.
• B Links NorthStar to two leading grammar series Focus on Grammar and the Azar Grammar series.

• F Outstanding instructional resources including 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 Web activities.
• B Facilitate teacher preparation and enhance students’ engagement with the material.