True Stories is a six-level reading series that has been an enduring favorite of teachers and students for 25 years. These popular texts consist of human-interest news stories that are geared towards adults.
The series can be used as a stand-alone reading course or as a complement to Future, a six-level adult English course that equips learners with transferable academic, workplace, and English communication skills.
The color-coordinated book covers make it easy to match the levels in True Stories with the levels in Future.
Why are True Stories and Future perfect partners?
Pair units in Future with thematically related units in True Stories to:
- accelerate your students’ progress in reading
- recycle and reinforce the vocabulary of the topics
- prompt students to share their own “true stories” related to the topic
- enliven your lessons with believe-it-or-not reading selections
Sandra Heyer, the True Stories author explains the rationale between this association between Future and True Stories:
“I teach reading in the four-level Adult ESL program in my community. I go from level to level with True Stories and teach a 20-30-minute reading lesson in each class.
When I walked into a classroom with the books, often the teacher asked if I had a story about the topic they’re working on–health, work, housing, etc. I usually did. The teachers and I noticed that a lot of the vocabulary in the life-skills unit reappeared in a theme-related story, and that often the story got students talking about their own experiences related to the theme. Another plus was that the story seemed to change the energy in the room—that the story about the woman with the bad knee being chased by a bear, for example, offset the seriousness of a lesson on illnesses and injuries. So, the teachers and I began to coordinate our lessons.”
We want to share this partnership with you. Therefore, we have created handy correlation documents to help you quickly match units in Future with complementary units in True Stories.
Download them here.
