NorthStar Fourth Edition, a five-level series, engages students through authentic and compelling content and empowers them to achieve their academic and personal goals. 

The approach to critical thinking in both the Reading/Writing and Listening/Speaking strands challenges students to move beyond basic comprehension to higher level analysis. Conceptualized to promote critical thinking, NorthStar infuses analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and application throughout every lesson, not just in a critical thinking section like in other series.

Features:

• New themes and updated content in a variety of text genres
• New design with full color pages and more photos and illustrations
• New online program. See MyNorthStarLab.com for details
• Enhanced focus on academic skills such as inferencing, note taking, test preparation and critical thinking

Interactive Student Book (ISB)

A fully blended online course that weaves the Student Book with interactive support to create a “presentation & practice” format for online learners. The entire book has been made interactive. The Interactive Student Book WEAVES the Student Book activities with interactive support.

All NorthStar Interactive Student Books come with the Teacher Resource eText to be used as a presentation tool.

With the Interactive Student Book (ISB), teachers can choose to:

• teach in the traditional manner and use the Interactive Student Book as a tool for monitoring homework and performance; or
• use the Interactive Student Book as a tool to flip their classrooms.

MyEnglishLab

Get Connected > Practise > Succeed
MyEnglishLab offers students further practice as they work through the coursebook.
 

Robin Mills is a California native and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1987. She has been a professional Sign Language interpreter for the deaf since 1983, nationally certified since 1987. In 1993, she received a Masters in Teaching English as a Second Language from San Francisco State University. Currently, she works as a community freelance interpreter. She most recently has taught ESL to deaf students at City College of San Francisco. She is a competitive swimmer, favoring distance open water swimming, and is also a fused glass artist. Her other hobbies include traveling, gardening, photography and cooking.