Contemporary"s Building Basic Skills series is a comprehensive instructional program for adult learners with pre-high school skill levels. The series develops solid skill foundations needed by learners who may go on to prepare for the high school equivalency examination. Building Basic Skills: Social Studies is ideal for individualized or group instruction, and contains a wide variety of passages in economics, history, political science, geography, and behavioral science, designed to develop basic reading-comprehension skills. Clear, simple directions and easy-to-follow skill progressions guide the learner working in a self-paced program, providing everything needed to master the basic skills.