Teaches reading skills through high-interest texts from the content areas, and a strong vocabulary strand.

Panorama: Building Perspective Through Reading is a reading series of high-interest texts that correlate to academic disciplines, including the arts, science, technology, and history. Each unit contains three thematically-linked reading texts-the first on a person, the second on a related place, and the third on a related concept or event.
An ExamView test-generator on CD-ROM is available for each level. This time-saving software contains additional thematically related text for each unit, along with assessment of such crucial skills as identification of main ideas, making inferences, and composition. ExamView allows for extensive customization through random reordering, editing and writing new items.