Weaving It Together 1 (Paperback, 4)

[Unit 1: Special Days]
READING 1 A Festival of Colors
WRITING 1 SKILLS The Sentence | Capitalization Rules
PRACTICE Writing about holidays
READING 2 Birthdays around the World
WRITING 2 SKILLS The Paragraph
PRACTICE Writing about your birthday

[Unit 2: Places]
READING 1 Venice: A Changing City
WRITING 1 SKILLS Adjectives
PRACTICE Writing about a city
READING 2 Life Is Good in Iceland
WRITING 2 SKILLS The Comparitive Form of Adjectives | The Superlative Form of Adjectives
PRACTICE Writing about one’s country

[Unit 3: Ways to Health]
READING 1 Go to Sleep!
WRITING 1 SKILLS Using when
PRACTICE Writing about sleep habits
READING 2 Laughing Out Loud
WRITING 2 SKILLS Adverbs
PRACTICE Writing about laughing

[Unit 4: Customs]
READING 1 What to Name the Baby
WRITING 1 SKILLS Count Nouns and Noncount Nouns
PRACTICE Writing about a special day
READING 2 Eat, Drink, and Know the Customs
WRITING 2 SKILLS Common Prepositions |Prepositional Phrases
PRACTICE Writing about a meal

[Unit 5: Food]
READING 1 Hold Your Nose and Eat!
WRITING 1 SKILLS Writing Instructions
PRACTICE Writing about a favorite food
READING 2 The World’s Most Popular Drink
WRITING 2 SKILLS The Pronouns it and them
PRACTICE Writing about a favorite drink

[Unit 6: Inventors and Their Inventions]
READING 1 Dinner Fresh from the Freezer
WRITING 1 SKILLS Comparing Things with as . . . as
PRACTICE Writing about microwave ovens
READING 2 A Sharp Idea from King Gillette
WRITING 2 SKILLS Using too and very with Adjectives
PRACTICE Writing about toothbrushes

[Unit 7: Amazing People]
READING 1 Hayat Sindi: One Person Helps the World
WRITING 1 SKILLS Asking Questions | Prepositions of Time
PRACTICE Writing about the life of a classmate
READING 2 A Life with Chimpanzees
WRITING 2 SKILLS Writing about Someone’s Life |Different Ways of Expressing Time
PRACTICE Writing about the events in one’s life

[Unit 8: Readings from Literature]
READING 1 The Rain
WRITING 1 SKILLS Review of Parts of Speech
PRACTICE Writing a poem
READING 2 The Shepherd’s Boy
WRITING 2 SKILLS Paraphrasing
PRACTICE Writing a fable