Read and Understand Celebrating Diversity Grades 3-4

by Martha Cheney, Kathleen Simpson, Tekla White

Read and Understand, Celebrating Diversity contains biographies, fiction, and nonfiction stories that present the rich diversity of the people of North America. There are biographies of well-known people of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, stories about adults and children who must deal with disablilties, and stories that provide a historical perspective. Each of the stories is followed by four pages of , comprehension, vocabulary, an activity that all allows students to connect the story to their own lives, a cross-curricular activity Celebrating Diversity, Grades 3-4 contains 20 stories, , Biographies-Martin Luther King, Jr., Hideo Nomo, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Jackie Robinson, Cesar Chavez, Fiction-Dairy of a Biracial Child, My Name ins Gao Yang, A Day in the Life of an Amish Girl, Nick's Tourette Syndrome, Nonfiction-The Cajuns, Kwanzaa, Diversity

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000