Wise & Wide is a 6-level English reading program that consists of 60 books and each level is
systematically divided by Lexile Ⓡ measures. The Lexile Ⓡ Framework for Reading is the most popular reading measuring system in American formal education curriculums and many English programs.
Over 20 out of 50 states in the U.S. mark Lexile Ⓡ measures directly on students’ final report cards and over 300 well-known publishers adopt and use Lexile Ⓡ measures.
Experience many kinds of readings written by professional writers from the U.S. and England. They used interesting topics that were carefully chosen after analyzing elementary curriculums from around the world including Korea, the U.S., England, and Australia among many others.
Before Reading
Interesting mystery story world
Do you like mystery stories? A mysterious case needs to be solved so a main character finds small clues which everyone was totally clueless about. The character figures out who the culprit is and continues sharp reasoning based on the clues to figure out the how and the why.
The main character sometimes runs into serious danger while solving the case. While reading the book, readers reason with the main character, cheer for the main character in danger and are surprised by a twist at the end.
Edgar Allan Poe is known as the father of the mystery story, but other early, popular mystery writers were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is famous for his works featuring Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie is famous for her works featuring Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple.
In the book, we will read three short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Shall we use the helpful clues with detective Sherlock Holmes to discover what happened, who the culprit is and why he or she did it?The Adventure of the Three Students
Professor Soames is looking over the Greek test papers for the next day, then he puts them down on his desk and goes out for a while. When he returns, he finds evidence that someone broke into his room and laid a finger on his test papers, so he asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate it secretly.
The Adventure of the Red-Headed League
Mr. Wilson finds an unusual job advertisement in the newspaper one day.
It is advertising for an office worker who has to do little work for his pay, but strangely only men with fiery red hair can apply....
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
Inspector Lestrade tells Sherlock Holmes about a strange case that happened recently. Someone is breaking into places and smashing busts of Napoleon to pieces before disappearing.