Reading is made up of 44 lessons, split into Reading One and Reading Two. The curriculum begins with practical reading skills - reading and interpreting prose encountered in everyday life. Later lessons cover reading science texts, historical interpretations, and literature.

To fully appreciate the breadth of the curriculum, please review the objectives for the two series.

Reading One promotes reading as a critical life skill for adults. The series uses a document-and- prose-literacy approach. Simply stated, that means it teaches the kind of reading most often required in everyday life. It's aimed at learners who read at the 5th – 9th grade level.

Reading One's 28 lessons address three basic types of reading. The first 12 lessons examine items we encounter every day – bills, tax and credit forms, warranties, safety information, advertising. The lessons focus on locating and interpreting critical information.

Lessons 13 through 20 teach how to recognize and apply information that is contained in longer documents like newspaper stories.

The remaining eight lessons, 21 through 28, teach the interpretation of literature through such factors as the author's voice, intent, and figurative language.

Video scenarios in a "soap opera" format provide an adult context for the reading skills. Each chapter begins with an episode in which adults are faced with a problem that requires interpretation of printed material for its solution. Sometimes, the video takes the form of an advertisement or TV host monologue. These scenarios clearly establish the relevance of reading skills in everyday life.

Two independent story lines are woven through this series. One story follows Rhonda, a single mother who faces and overcomes a variety of difficulties. The second story follows Darrell, a young man living with his sister and brother-in-law as he finds ways to get started in life.

Following the video, the learner is presented with text covering the lesson's objectives, and then learners have ample opportunities to hone their skills in the Practice and Challenge Exercises associated with each chapter.

Reading Two teaches the reading skills required for the high school level of proficiency. Sixteen total lessons address three content areas.

The first five lessons teach reading skills for literature – finding the main idea, using context clues, distinguishing concrete from abstract and interpreting maps, graphs and charts.

Lessons 6 through 11 concentrate on reading science using the terminology of ecology, biology, geology, basic atomic theory, and physics.

The remaining five lessons teach strategies for interpreting history through a look at American history from early exploration and colonization through the 1970's.

In this series, the video segments introduce and explain each reading skill. The five literature lessons are hosted by Wally Amos, who presents exciting reenactments of scenes from literature.

The science lessons in Books Six through Eleven are hosted by Pamela Lewis, who explains and demonstrates fundamental scientific concepts as a way of teaching how to read this type of information.

The history series is hosted by Wayne Bryan who reviews the cornerstones of American history as a jumping off point for further instruction on ways to read and comprehend this exciting subject.

The video segments in Reading Two are different from those in Reading One in another important way. At the beginning of each lesson, the entire video lesson is provided. Then a series of shorter video reruns are provided. This approach is particularly helpful when students are working on the exercises and wish to go over the video information as they practice. After the video instruction, text instruction reinforces and expands on the main points of the lesson.