All for the Better: courageous 11-year old Evelina Lopez from Puerto Rico starts a new life in New York’s El Barrio during the Great Depression

Building a Dream: the story of Mary McLeod Bethune and the school she started for African-American children

Why They Marched: the events of 1965 that culminated in the Selma to Montgomery protest march to secure the right to vote in safety

Each of the Nonfiction Bookbag eContent titles focuses on a milestone in American history and addresses the findings of the National Reading Panel in two critical areas of instruction: vocabulary and comprehension. Developed specifically to increase reading comprehension and a love of reading, the series helps bring struggling readers up to grade level and prepare them for high-stakes tests.

Each eContent title includes the accompanying electronic copies of the book, Student Handbook containing learning activities related to each title, as well as student pre- and post-reading tests.

All content has been adapted into electronic form for immediate use with Kurzweil 3000.

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Teacher’s Editions for individual Nonfiction Bookbag titles are available in print.