This booklet provides an assortment of materials relating to a cognitive approach to community-based multicultural education. In a brief discussion, the first article presents a preliminary formulation of some views about multicultural education. The text includes a list of basic skills and thinking processes which may be taught and learned through a multicultural approach to curriculum, along with a list of stories for reading aloud that reveal different cultural perspectives. A second brief article discusses ways to restore the connection between reading and writing and students' daily lives. A list of readings and other related materials is appended. (RH)