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=Welcome to the Three Cups of Tea - A Guide for Integrating Literature in FCS Classes=

Getting Started....
This website is designed to encourage the use of literature in family and consumer sciences courses and to improve reading comprehension of students in the classes through the use of selected reading strategies. The Guide was developed for use with middle and high school students usiing either the book, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and the Young Reader's Edition of Three Cups of Tea suitable for use with a younger audience or struggling readers.

This Guide provides a directory of the reading strategies used with Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson; the strategies were developed to aid in reading comprehension and to assist students in identifying with issues addressed in the book. If you are working with younger readers or adolescents who struggle with reading, you might choose the Young Readers Edition of the book.