Title: Cesar Chavez
First published: 2006
Description: Cesar Chavez quit school after Grade 8 to help support his family. He laboured in the fields as a migrant farm worker. In 1962, Cesar founded and led the first successful farm workers' union in U.S. history. This resource is organized so that it: provides an historical context which enhances the studentb2ss knowledge of the past; uses familiar language, which enables students to use context cues to predict words; uses photographs to illustrate the text, making the words easier to decode; repeats sentence patterns, making the text easier to read; provides discussion questions that encourage critical thinking.
Subjects: Labor leaders, Mexican Americans, United Farm Workers, Civil rights workers, Juvenile literature, Biography, History, Chavez, cesar, 1927-1993, United states, biography, Readers for new literates
Places: United States
People: Cesar Chavez (1927-1993)