Making Connections teaches a wide range of reading skills and strategies in order to prepare students for college reading. Making Connections Second Edition Level 1 Student First-Time Readers of Academic Text book introduces basic reading strategies such as finding paragraph topics, looking for supporting details, and learning to speed read. It features a variety of high interest topics, including national borders, names, food, sleep, natural disasters, and music. Each student's book contains a single-use code for accessing audio files of the readings at SMTI.