Rights and Responsibilities: Reading and Communication for Civicswill greatly aid newcomers to the United States who must simultaneously learn English and adjust to American housing, work, school, finance, health, and political systems and practices.Each chapter skillfully combines practical information with activities that develop reading, vocabulary, and conversation skills as students learn how to establish banking credit, register to vote, use a library, and enroll children in schools and sports programs.Rights and Responsibilitiescan be used as core text for adult classes to focus on EL civics education used as a civics-oriented supplement to a secondary ESL language arts program, or used as a supplement to an ESL/ELD basal series.