Read and Understand, Celebrating Diversity, Grades 3-4 contains 20 stories including:
- Biographies—Martin Luther King, Jr., Hideo Nomo, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Jackie Robinson, Cesar Chavez
- Fiction—Diary of a Biracial Child, My Name is Gao Yang, A Day in the Life of an Amish Girl, Nick's Tourette Syndrome
- Nonfiction—The Cajuns, Kwanzaa
Each of the stories is followed by four pages of activities:
- comprehension
- vocabulary
- an activity that allows students to connect the story to their own lives
- a cross-curricular activity