Introduction To Re Advanced Reading Course

Third Edition
Introduction to BetaKid
RE Advanced Reading Course
“Bringing the world to the classroom
and classroom to life.”
Copyright©2021 BetaKid
CONTENT
1. About Reading Explorer

2. What’s New in RE Third Edition
3. Couse System and Corresponding Standards
4. Course Schedule
5. Course Features
6. Learning Process
7. Classroom Resources
Reading Explorer is a series of academic reading textbooks jointly produced by National
Geographic Learning and Cengage Learning. The reading texts are true stories selected from
National Geographic magazines, allowing students to acquire useful knowledge while
learning English, which greatly enhances their understanding of the world. The key teaching
concepts of Reading Explorer include: leading students to get to know multiple text types,
teaching students multiple reading skills and strategies systematically, strengthening
students’ reading ability in stages and encouraging learners to read independently.
*BetaKid has reached a strategic cooperation

agreement with NGL in December 2020, and
has obtained the official authorization of the
third edition of RE.
Reading Explorer includes six levels
(Level F-Level 5), aiming at improving
students' academic reading skills
gradually. Each level has 12 units. Two
reading texts on one topic are in each
unit, equipped with an original
National Geographic video. Each unit
is also supplemented by a reviewing
lesson to help students reinforce the
knowledge and reading skills they
learned.
What is updated in RE Third Edition is as follows:
ü 75% of updated National Geographic photos for each level

ü 75-80% of updated HD videos for each level
ü 25% of updated reading texts for each level
ü Updated word lists are marked with CEFR grade. High-frequency academic
words are star-marked.
ü Vocabulary Practice focuses more on collocations, word forms, and word usage.
Vocabulary Review is added to the end of each unit.
ü Intensive and repetitive key Reading Skills is updated.
ü Reading Comprehension is inserted with more IELTS and TOFEL question types.
ü Updated classroom presentation tools (CPT) that can be stored in USB
1. There are 59 updated HD videos in RE
Third Edition (highlighted in bold). Vivid
pictures and videos have always been a
major feature of the NGL textbooks.
Nearly 80% of the pictures and videos
have been updated to refresh the
textbooks, allowing students to “learn
to read while exploring”. This breaks the
traditional teaching mode of reading
courses, and highly raises students’
learning interest.
2. RE Third Edition covers more new
unit topics. The new unit topics
include: Plastic Planet, Factor Fake?,
Plants and the Planet, Finding
Wonders, New Tech, Money and
Trade, Reasons for Hope, etc. These
cross-subject topics keep up with
current social events and greatly
expand students’ prior knowledge.
3. Vocabulary Review is added to the
end of each unit in RE Third Edition.
Based on the big data analysis of
3.5 million academic thesaurus,
the target words and high-
frequency academic words (star-
marked words) are selected and
listed to help students memorize
them and to help teachers clarify
their teaching goals.
4. The Reading Skill section after each
reading text is one of the best features of
RE. The third edition updates a large
number of reading skills, including:
Skimming, Scanning, Gist, Details,
Reference, Main Ideas, Understanding
words in context, Purpose, Summarizing,
Inferencing, Synthesizing, etc. The Reading
Skill section is followed by corresponding
activities, allowing students to apply the
academic reading skills and strategies they
have learned.
5. The activities in Reading
Comprehension section
incorporate more IELTS and
TOEFL question types, in order
to help students get prepared
for international English
exams.
3. Course System and Corresponding Standards
Level Lexile CEFR IELTs TOEFL
Reading Explorer LF to
LF 700 A2 0-2.0 0-34 L5 correspond to CEFR
A2 to C1.
L1 820 A2-B1 2.0-3.0 32-40
L2 960 B1 3.5-4.0 35-45 A1, A2 – Basic level students
L3 1050 B1-B2 4.0-5.0 40-78

B1, B2 – Independent level
students
L4 1140 B2 5.0-6.5 60-93
C1, C2 – Proficient level
L5 1190 C1 6.5-7.0 94-115 students
4. Course Schedule
*”Read the entire text” page is added to the slides which is shown as “click to show
the text”button at the right up corner. The text is on the last pages of each slide.
Course Type RE Advanced Reading Course

Target Students Students aged 8 to 16（WS Advanced or above）
Levels 6 levels Level F - Level 5
Reading A Reading B Unit Review Total
Lessons Level F-1 2 lessons 2 lessons 1 lesson 5 lessons per unit
Level 2-5 3 lessons 3 lessons 1 lesson 7 lessons per unit
1. Improve students' reading skills, especially academic reading skills.
2. Expand students’ academic vocabulary volume through academic reading.
3. Cultivate students' critical thinking skills. Encourage students to analyze
Teaching Goals questions from different perspectives. Improve their oral English and writing
skills as well.
4. Have students understand the world better and develop their global
perspective. Prepare students for international English exams.
4. Course Schedule
RE Advanced Reading Course is suitable for students of Wonder Skills Advanced or
above, and can be taken as a connecting course between Wonder Skills and language
training courses for studying abroad. Compared with WS, RE involves a wider range of
topics, more academic reading texts, deeper text analysis, larger vocabulary volume,
and higher reading skills requirement.
RE compared with other courses of BetaKid：
Reading Explorer LF L1 L2 L3 L4 L5
Master Master Master

Wonder Skills Advanced Advanced Master
or above or above or above
Grade 5 Grade 5 Grade 5
Writing Course Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5
or above or above or above
Cambridge English FCE
KET PET PET FCE CAE
test or above
5. Course Features
1 Global issue-related
2 Highly interactive
3
Academic reading skill
text activities practice
4 Critical thinking and

5
Vocabulary building and
6
Complete learning cycle
supported by various
oral practice extension
learning materials
5. Course Features
• Global issue-related text RE course contains texts with diverse topics related to global
issues. The six textbooks cover 72 topics in total, including
• Highly interactive activities
natural science, social phenomena, human history,
• Academic reading skill
adventures, etc. The texts help students cultivate a global
practice
perspective and better prepare them for international English
• Critical thinking and oral
exams.
practice
• Vocabulary building and
extension
• Complete learning cycle
learning materials
5. Course Features
• Global issue-related text At the beginning of
• Highly interactive activities each unit, there is a
• Academic reading skill topic discussion to
practice stimulate students’
• Critical thinking and oral existing knowledge
practice and to introduce
• Vocabulary building and background
extension knowledge of the
• Complete learning cycle unit topic.
learning materials
RE Syllabus-LF
Thematic reading (red border)

New reading texts (purple border)
RE Syllabus-L1
每册书每单元都涉及
一个领域的主题
RE Syllabus-L2
每册书每单元都涉及
一个领域的主题
RE Syllabus-L3

RE Syllabus-L4

RE Syllabus-L5

5. Course Features
Abundant and interesting highly interactive activities ensure
• Global issue-related text sufficient interaction between the teacher and the student. The
• Highly interactive activities interactive activities include evaluation, discussion, debate, etc.
• Academic reading skill These activities are more helpful for students to concentrate in class
practice and to think and express from multiple perspectives.
practice
extension
supported by various Topic-related discussions in
learning materials Critical Thinking stimulates
students’ enthusiasm for
expressing themselves while
Copyright©2021 BetaKid digging deeper to the topic.
5. Course Features
• Global issue-related text RE Advanced Reading Course focuses on improving students’
academic reading skills. Multiple sections cover explanations of
certain academic reading skills, along with reading skill practice.
• Academic reading skill For students, the academic reading skills introduced in this
practice course also apply to the reading tests at school and in
• Critical thinking and oral international English exams.
practice
extension
learning materials
Read the Text section contains main questions and
extension questions. A tip of an academic reading skill
5. Course Features follows each question, reminding students of what to
look for and which reading skill to use.
• Global issue-related text
L1 Unit6A
• Highly interactive activities In One Cubic Foot
practice
main question
practice
extension
extension questions
learning materials
5. Course Features
practice
practice
Reading Comprehension section
• Vocabulary building and examines students’ understanding of
extension the whole text as well as its details.
• Complete learning cycle Each question also has a tip to help
supported by various students learn the purpose of each
learning materials question.
Each text contains Reading Skill section
which teaches a new academic reading
skill, along with at least two reading
5. Course Features skill activities.
practice
practice
extension 技巧训练
learning materials
Each text uses a mind map to help students
5. Course summarize and retell the whole text. The mind map
can clearly show the text structure, which provides
Features students with a basis for retelling the text.
L1 Unit5B L1 Unit6B
Rio Reborn A World within Us
5. Course Features
• Global issue-related text Apart from academic reading skills, RE Advanced Reading
• Highly interactive activities Course also helps improve students’ critical thinking skills and
oral English. The course is full of discussions over a certain
practice
topic or issue, encouraging students to think and share ideas
from multiple perspectives.
practice
extension
learning materials
5. Course In Critical Thinking section, students can present
Features their ideas, questions or supplement other people’s
ideas over questions about the text topic.
Various kinds of oral practice provide students with
opportunities to discuss and debate, allowing them
5. Course to support their ideas with reasons or evidence.
Features L1 Unit4B
Living in Space
L1 Unit7A
The Truth about Dinosaurs
debate discuss to draw a conclusion

5. Course Features
• Global issue-related text In RE Advanced Reading Course, each text teaches a certain
• Highly interactive activities number of target words and expanded words. Teachers
• Academic reading skill should elicit students to guess the meaning of the words
practice from the context. The Vocabulary Learning section teaches
word forms (synthesis, derivation, transformation),
practice collocations, word usage, synonyms, etc. This can help
students learn vocabulary through understanding, so as to
extension avoid memorizing.
learning materials
Vocabulary in RE
5. Course Features Level Target Word
Expanded
Total
Word
• Global issue-related text LF 192 158 350

L1 240 146 386
practice L2 240 138 378
practice L3 240 150 390
extension L4 240 242 482
L5 240 292 532
learning materials
Total 1392 1126 2518
L1 Unit1A
The Incredible Dolphin
5. Course Features
Target words are
• Global issue-related text highlighted in red in the
• Highly interactive activities text to make it easy for
students to find and guess
• Academic reading skill their meanings from the
practice context.
practice
extension
supported by various Expanded words can
learning materials be checked in the
footnotes, most of
which are academic.
In Word Forms, the meaning of the vocabulary is
explained from the perspective of word formation,
5. Course Features in other words, from its root and affix/suffix.

practice
practice
extension
learning materials
In Collocations, commonly-used collocations of the
vocabulary are listed to help students better
understand the use of the vocabulary in sentences.
5. Course Features L1 Unit4A

Life Beyond Earth

practice
practice
extension
learning materials
5. Course Features
• Global issue-related text In addition to the main course, RE Advanced Reading
Course also provides students with a complete set of
learning materials, including audios, videos, online
workbook, examview, unit reviewing lessons, etc. These
practice
learning materials interlock with each other and closely
• Critical thinking and oral follow students’ learning stages.
practice
extension
learning materials
6. Learning Process
1 Preview
5 accessment
2 Live class
4 Unit Review 3 after class

Practice
6.1 Learning materials Overview
1 Before You 2 3 4 Reading
Read the Text Summarize the
Read Text Comprehension
8 7 Vocabulary 6 5 Critical
Wrap up Reading Skill
Practice Thinking
6.1.1 Unit Opener
Each unit is opened with

updated National Geographic
photos. These exquisite real
photos are fascinating enough
to stimulate students’
imagination and interest in
learning. The questions in Unit
Opener are also very leading,
guiding students to gradually
enter the state of learning.
6.1.2 Warm Up
In Warm Up, students discuss

the topic of the text with each
other and learn background
knowledge of the text. This
section stimulates students’
learning interest.
6.1.3 Before You Read
In Before You Read, academic words in the text are pre-

taught in different activities. Students also have to skim
the text to predict its main idea.
6.1.4 Read the Text

After reading the whole text,
students answer some essential
questions about the text.
In Read the Text, students first listen

and repeat the text. Teacher corrects
their pronunciation.
6.1.4 Read the Text

Background knowledge is inserted to explain
certain object or concept mentioned in the text, in
order to help students better understand the text.
In Read the Text, students are required to answer

main questions and extension questions, and to
guess the meanings of target words from the context.
6.1.5 Summarize the text

After learning the text,
students need to retell the
whole text based on a
concept map which clearly
shows the text structure.
6.1.6 Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension examines students’ understanding of the

main idea and details of the text. The clues to the answer of each
question are marked to help students check the answers.
6.1.7 Reading Skill

After learning an academic reading skill,
students need to use it in relevant activities to
reinforce what they’ve learned.
Each text teaches a new academic reading skill based

on the reading skills students have already learned.
6.1.8 Critical Thinking
Diverse oral practice such as discussion, debate,
etc. helps improve students’ critical thinking
skills and their oral English.
In Critical Thinking, students have to discuss or debate

over an issue or statement mentioned in the text. They
must support their ideas with reasons or evidence.
6.1.9 Vocabulary Practice
Vocabulary Practice contains activities such as
“Match each word with its definition”, “Circle the
correct words”, and “Complete the sentence with the
correct words”. The target words are put in new
context to examine students’ understanding.
6. 2 Homework After learning each text, students have to finish corresponding
activities in Online Workbook.
• Preview
Students can register
• Live class and log in the website
https://myelt.heinle.co
• After class practice m/, enter the access
code in the textbook
• Unit Review and use the Online
Workbook.
• Accessment
6.3 Unit Review
In RE course, each unit is equipped with a reviewing
• Preview lesson to help students reinforce what they’ve learned
about the whole unit.
• Live class
A unit reviewing lesson includes:
• After class practice 1. Text Review
2. Vocabulary Review
• Unit Review
3. Reading Skill Review
• Accessment 4. Video
6.3 Unit Review
6.3.1 Text Review
In Text Review, essential questions

of the unit texts help students
quickly review the texts.
6.3 Unit Review
6.3.2 Vocabulary Review
Vocabulary Review helps

students recall the meaning
and part of speech of each
target word.
6.3.3 Reading Skill Review
6.3 Unit Review

Through Reading Skill
Review, students apply
reading skills they
learned in the unit to
new reading context.
6.3 Unit Review 6.3.4 Video
• Preview
• Live class
• After class practice
• Unit Review
• Accessment
Video section contains two stages: Before You Watch and

While You Watch. The activities help students enhance
visual-audio learning through extracting key information
from the video.
7. Classroom Recourses
Student Resources Teacher Resources
• Student Book • Teaching materials (PPT)

• Learning materials(PPT) • Teacher’s Guide
• Audio CD Package • Audio CD Package
• Classroom DVD • Classroom DVD
• Online Workbook
Please contact Course Design&Development
Department if you have any questions.
Thank you.
fang.yuan@bedakid.com

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Third Edition

1. About Reading Explorer

*BetaKid has reached a strategic cooperation

ü 75% of updated National Geographic photos for each level

L2 960 B1 3.5-4.0 35-45 A1, A2 – Basic level students

L3 1050 B1-B2 4.0-5.0 40-78

Course Type RE Advanced Reading Course

Master Master Master

4 Critical thinking and

Thematic reading (red border)

Thematic reading (red border)

Thematic reading (red border)

Thematic reading (red border)

debate discuss to draw a conclusion

• Global issue-related text LF 192 158 350

• Highly interactive activities

• Global issue-related text

5. Course Features L1 Unit4A

• Global issue-related text

4 Unit Review 3 after class

Each unit is opened with

In Warm Up, students discuss

6.1.3 Before You Read

In Before You Read, academic words in the text are pre-

6.1.4 Read the Text

In Read the Text, students first listen

6.1.4 Read the Text

In Read the Text, students are required to answer

6.1.5 Summarize the text

6.1.6 Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension examines students’ understanding of the

6.1.7 Reading Skill

Each text teaches a new academic reading skill based

In Critical Thinking, students have to discuss or debate

In Text Review, essential questions

Vocabulary Review helps

6.3 Unit Review

• After class practice

Video section contains two stages: Before You Watch and

Student Resources Teacher Resources

• Student Book • Teaching materials (PPT)

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