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The best-selling book for teaching basic life skills, fully revised and updated
This book offers teachers and parents a unique collection of 190 ready-to-use activities complete with student worksheets, discussion questions, and evaluation suggestions to help exceptional students acquire the basic skills needed to achieve independence and success in everyday life. Each of the book's activities focuses on specific skills within the context of real-life situations and includes complete teacher instructions for effective use, from objective and introduction through optional extension activities and methods to assess student learning. The book includes numerous reproducible parent letters which can be sent home to help parents reinforce these lessons while children are away from school.
- A revised and updated edition of the classic book for teaching basic life skills
- Includes 190 complete activities with reproducible worksheets, discussion questions, and evaluation suggestions for developing independence
- Offers ideas for developing practical skills to deal with identity theft, cell phone manners, budgeting, eating healthy meals, using credit cards, time management, and much more
- Mannix is the best-selling author of Social Skills Activities for Special Children, Writing Skills Activities for Special Children, and Character Building Activities for Kids
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- ISBN13: 9780470259375- Condition: New
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By J. E. Calandra (NE Pa.)
I teach the Life-Skills program at one of our areas middle schools, grades 6-8. The students I teach are generally mildly Mentally Retarded and are functioning on a K-1st grade level and most are non-readers. This book and it's sister book by Ms. Mannix, Social Skills Activities for Special Children (J-B Teacher) are great resources. They can be used as wonderful, interesting workbooks with children who are able to read on a limited basis, or they can easily be adapted for the non-reader which is what I do. Each unit begins with a letter that can be sent home to the parents explaining what the unit is about and some even have suggestions for ways the parent or guardian can reinforce the skills at home. Each unit also has a chart for tracking the individual's progress of each unit. The format is easy to understand and each activity or mini-lesson is individually laid out in Lesson plan form with an objective, opening activity, suggested discussion questions, a follow-up activity and a worksheet activity that can be used as is or with a little advance planning can be adapted to be used as a cut and paste activity which is what I do with my non-readers. My only suggestion for improvement would be to have the adapted pages included so that the teacher has them readily available for the non-reader as well as the reading student in her class.
By Peter H. Lynch
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By anabell77
This book is a great tool for moms of kids with PPD-NOS like myself - kids who know what to do but can't always carry out the proper moves when faced with the great chess game of social interactions. My son doesn't always want to do the activity sheets in the book but once we get started, he really gets into it and one night even cleaned my entire room after a question was posed on one of the work sheets and he couldn't think of an answer: what do you think your mom would like for a birthday present?
Well that night, he ended up having the opposite problem. He didn't "know" the answer when faced with it on the page but instinctively "felt" what would please me, which is what he faces in school a lot. This book has activities that help creat bridges between what we think and feel and how we act and shows that sometimes there is no right answer but there may be an action that turns out to be a simple act of kindness. And that's never a bad thing.
By Martha (Texas)
I bought this for my daughter who is a special needs teacher. She is thrilled and says the book looks easy to read and she can't wait to get into it. Just got it for her for Christmas this year, so she hasn't read it yet, but she has glanced at it and seems to like it real well.
By A. L. Toliver-Smith (Chocolate City, USA)
This is another good resource for therapy. It can be modified for all levels.
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