Explore and analyze community-based social situations in an illustrated, short story format.

The Student Reader includes 25 stories, featuring same primary protagonists from Connections in the Workplace. Each four page story has a student activity page and vocabulary exercises. Topics covered include: handling a home medical emergency, visiting a hospital, witnessing a robbery, avoiding a stalker and preparing to attend a wedding.

The Teacher's Guide provides several additional worksheets per story that assess comprehension, vocabulary and the understanding of the underlying social skills. Use the PDF on CD for easy printouts of activity pages and full-color stories.

Covered spiralbound Teacher's Guide, black and white, 155 pgs., plus Win/Mac CD with printable PDF. Student Reader, covered spiralbound book, full color, 216 pgs., 2007.

Do the Right Thing eReader Software incorporates Attainment's eReader software which reads the stories aloud to students with professional narration. Text is highlighted word by word, line by line, or by complete sentence. Graphics are plentiful, contemporary and age-appropriate. A test at the end of each story provides speech support and an optional hint feature that directs students to the page that addresses each question. Students can access the software by mouse, touch screen, IntelliKeys or single switch.

A unified management system helps the teacher quickly review or print out student performance data. Teachers can determine reading lists and set options that best suit each student's learning style. Choose word-by-word or natural speech narration, select the text highlighting approach and assign tests. eReader software is Windows only, 2000 or higher.

Student Reader and Teacher's Guide are available separately or as Classroom Reading Sets. The eReader software for struggling readers is available separately and as a set of five.