READING · Module 1
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154 lessons · 2d 3h · part of Reading Mastery
Strategy & Tips
Beginner Practice
PracticePassage 1 — The Stone Granaries of MehrgarhPracticePassage 2 — Where languages meetPracticePassage 3 — The long road of the wind turbinePracticePassage 4 — The long afterlife of VoyagerPracticePassage 5 — The making of the Mercator mapPracticePassage 6 — Reading a medieval cathedralPracticePassage 7 — Turning plastics back into plasticsPracticePassage 8 — The biology and reputation of the coral reefPracticePassage 9 — The long road of teaPracticePassage 10 — The origins of modern wheatPracticePassage 11 — The library as institutionPracticePassage 12 — How plants split waterPracticePassage 13 — The journey of the monarch butterflyPracticePassage 14 — What lives in a handful of soilPracticePassage 15 — Machines in the fieldPracticePassage 16 — The hidden complexity of coffee farmingPracticePassage 17 — A coast in retreatPracticePassage 18 — The work of translationPracticePassage 19 — The urban park as a public inventionPracticePassage 20 — What elephants knowPracticePassage 21 — Bacteria that have stopped listeningPracticePassage 22 — Damming the riverPracticePassage 23 — The Movement of GlaciersPracticePassage 24 — The Vinegar TrailPracticePassage 25 — Paper ArchaeologyPracticePassage 26 — Finding the Way in the MindPracticePassage 27 — How Insects TalkPracticePassage 28 — Watching the MountainPracticePassage 29 — Turning Salt Water SweetPracticePassage 30 — The Slow Life of LichensPracticePassage 31 — Mapping the Ocean FloorPracticePassage 32 — Reading the WallsPracticePassage 33 — The First OlivePracticePassage 34 — Insects at the Crime ScenePracticePassage 35 — Forests Beneath the WavesPracticePassage 36 — When the Lake Breaks OutPracticePassage 37 — Tracing the PotPracticePassage 38 — The Red Gold of La ManchaPracticePassage 39 — Crossing a ContinentPracticePassage 40 — The Seeds of the FuturePracticePassage 41 — Partners in the FlockPracticePassage 42 — Restoring the Oyster ReefPracticePassage 43 — The Loom with Many MemoriesPracticePassage 44 — Rewetting the BogPracticePassage 45 — Grazing the MarshPracticePassage 46 — The return of the huarangoPracticePassage 47 — The Microbes in the DoughPracticePassage 48 — Counting the TravellersPracticePassage 49 — Steam on the OceanPracticePassage 50 — The Colour of the Desert
Intermediate Practice
PracticePassage 1 — Why do whales strand?PracticePassage 2 — The use and misuse of first impressionsPracticePassage 3 — A short history of pepperPracticePassage 4 — Why music seems to move usPracticePassage 5 — The kindergarten and its inheritorsPracticePassage 6 — Living on the edge: life near volcanoesPracticePassage 7 — Rivers put back in their banksPracticePassage 8 — The invention of the modern postal servicePracticePassage 9 — How desert animals save waterPracticePassage 10 — Before the alphabet: reading cave paintingsPracticePassage 11 — Before the compass: seafaring in the PacificPracticePassage 12 — Water in the modern cityPracticePassage 13 — The camera before the filmPracticePassage 14 — Salvaging ships from the seaPracticePassage 15 — The endurance of the street marketPracticePassage 16 — Birds in the cityPracticePassage 17 — The brief age of the airshipPracticePassage 18 — Why Roman concrete outlasted its successorsPracticePassage 19 — The electrical grid learns to listenPracticePassage 20 — What children drawPracticePassage 21 — Before electricity: the age of the windmillPracticePassage 22 — Reading icePracticePassage 23 — Storing the crops of the worldPracticePassage 24 — Fuel from waterPracticePassage 25 — Light from Living ThingsPracticePassage 26 — Reading the ClockPracticePassage 27 — The Dye TradePracticePassage 28 — Seeing Through the ScreenPracticePassage 29 — Rebuilding the ReefPracticePassage 30 — Thinking About DecisionsPracticePassage 31 — Remembering and ForgettingPracticePassage 32 — Reading the WrecksPracticePassage 33 — The Science of the HivePracticePassage 34 — The Place Makes the TeaPracticePassage 35 — The Craft of Timber FramingPracticePassage 36 — The Scent of the ArchivePracticePassage 37 — Sleeping AnimalsPracticePassage 38 — The Heat of the CityPracticePassage 39 — Bridges of the Middle AgesPracticePassage 40 — Listening to the LandscapePracticePassage 41 — The Shape of the LetterPracticePassage 42 — Frozen Moments in AmberPracticePassage 43 — Speaking the ArcticPracticePassage 44 — Songs That TravelPracticePassage 45 — The Long ApprenticeshipPracticePassage 46 — The Eye That Sees at NightPracticePassage 47 — The Jewels of the CavePracticePassage 48 — Choices on the MapPracticePassage 49 — Plastic in the WaterPracticePassage 50 — The Slow RiverPracticePassage 51 — The Disappearing Sky
Advanced Practice
PracticePassage 1 — The Quiet Transformation of FreiburgPracticePassage 2 — Rediscovering woodPracticePassage 3 — Sleep and the teenage brainPracticePassage 4 — Giving wolves back their spacePracticePassage 5 — The minute physiology of elite sprintingPracticePassage 6 — The dances of the honeybeePracticePassage 7 — The colour of old glassPracticePassage 8 — How sound shapes a cityPracticePassage 9 — The long span: bridges across wide watersPracticePassage 10 — Watching weather from spacePracticePassage 11 — Two languages, one mindPracticePassage 12 — The promise and difficulty of tidal powerPracticePassage 13 — The bodies of high-altitude climbersPracticePassage 14 — The hidden grammar of gesturePracticePassage 15 — What we remember of being smallPracticePassage 16 — Fibres and the long history of clothPracticePassage 17 — Why sleep is good for memoryPracticePassage 18 — Fire and the forestPracticePassage 19 — A fish under pressurePracticePassage 20 — Listening to the universePracticePassage 21 — Spotting a fakePracticePassage 22 — The brain on the dance floorPracticePassage 23 — Languages on the edgePracticePassage 24 — Collecting sunlight from orbitPracticePassage 25 — The Revival of Basket-WeavingPracticePassage 26 — Desert Ecosystems Under PressurePracticePassage 27 — The Green CityPracticePassage 28 — The Pull of the TidesPracticePassage 29 — Growing Up in Two LanguagesPracticePassage 30 — The Road to SamarkandPracticePassage 31 — The Falconer's CraftPracticePassage 32 — The Air We Breathe IndoorsPracticePassage 33 — Lighting the MuseumPracticePassage 34 — Ghosts of the UniversePracticePassage 35 — Letting the Land Go BackPracticePassage 36 — Drilling Through the IcePracticePassage 37 — Colours on the WallPracticePassage 38 — The Mathematics of the SundialPracticePassage 39 — A Song of Their OwnPracticePassage 40 — What the Bog RemembersPracticePassage 41 — The Skin of the ScribePracticePassage 42 — Every Snow CrystalPracticePassage 43 — Glass from the LagoonPracticePassage 44 — Carbon in the SoilPracticePassage 45 — Following the InkPracticePassage 46 — The Otter and the ForestPracticePassage 47 — The Real Olive OilPracticePassage 48 — Coats of Many MeaningsPracticePassage 49 — The Carnivorous PlantPracticePassage 50 — Reading the Erased PagePracticePassage 51 — The Tree That Makes PaintPracticePassage 52 — The Physics of Ice at Night