Help your students develop important survival skills while improving their reading, writing, spelling and vocabulary! This practical book is filled with easy-to-use activities that focus on essential vocabulary and real-life situations to help students become more confident and independent. Key words are introduced, then reinforced through step-by-step exercises emphasizing word pronunciation, definitions, spelling, handwriting, problem solving, and more! A terrific way to help your students acquire vital life skills! Words Include: resume, employer, social security, qualified, salary, interview, overtime, supervisor, and many more. Interest Level 7-12 | Reading Level 4-5 Contents Include: - 7 Lessons - Activities that cover abbreviations, personal data, job applications, paychecks, safety, and much more - Answer key Skills Covered Include: - Apply information - Choose the correct word - Expand vocabulary - Understand meaning of words and ideas - Use context clues - Develop life/survival skills - Write an original sentence - Understand consumer information - Spell correctly - Apply math to real-life situations

Knowing signs, symbols, and directions is essential for students who are trying to expand their knowledge outside the classroom into the “real world.” These flash cards present words and symbols that students will encounter in their everyday lives. This instant download features 94 full-color flash cards that include bold graphics and simple, easy-to-understand definitions, which makes these ideal for students of all ability levels. A must-have addition for any life skills class. This 24-page download includes 94 flash cards and activity suggestions. Simply print the file double-sided so that the definitions for each sign are on the back side. Signs & Symbols Include: - Bus Stop - Caution Automatic Door - Bike Crossing - Hospital - Camping Area - Detour - Elevator - Caution - Do Not Enter - Fire Department - Flammable - Fragile - No Parking - No Smoking - Out of Order - Poison - Police - Restroom - Recycle - and Many More!

A strong sense of character and positive self-esteem are key ingredients to a student's success in school and in life. Writing About Me gives your students a real chance to develop and reinforce 38 all-important attributes, while simultaneously improving their writing skills. Each page presents a specific attribute, such as "honesty" or "responsibility," to stimulate group discussion. To help students further understand these characteristics and how they apply to their daily lives, a series of fun and relevant writing activities are included to help students focus on their individual and collective attributes. So let Remedia Publications help your students have fun learning the very important concepts of character, self-esteem, and writing with this easy-to-use, "accentuate-the-positive" book.

Help your students develop important survival skills while improving their reading, writing, spelling and vocabulary! This practical book is filled with easy-to-use activities that focus on essential vocabulary and real-life situations to help students become more confident and independent. Key words are introduced, then reinforced through step-by-step exercises emphasizing word pronunciation, definitions, spelling, handwriting, problem solving, and more! A terrific way to help your students acquire vital life skills! Words Include: vocation, attorney, electrician, dental assistant, lab technician, cardiologist, retirement plan, and many more. Interest Level 7-12 | Reading Level 4-5 Contents Include: - 9 Lessons - Activities that cover jobs in health care, construction, education, and much more - Answer key - And more! Skills Covered Include: - Apply information - Choose the correct word - Expand vocabulary - Understand meaning of words and ideas - Use context clues - Use dictionary and glossary skills - Develop life/survival skills - Find relevant facts - Spell correctly - Understand and use reference sources - Analyze information - Write an original sentence - Classify information - Determine alphabetical order - Express/justify an opinion - Make decisions/choices

Watch math skills improve as students work through more than 100 real-life math word problems! Everyday Math is the perfect way to build students' math skills while helping them gain a true appreciation for math in everyday living. Students read each real-life scenario, then must decide whether to add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve each word problem. Other exercises involve fractions, decimals, percents, and more! A real, practical application of math!

Help your students develop important survival skills while improving their reading, writing, spelling, and vocabulary! This practical unit is filled with easy-to-use activities that focus on essential vocabulary and real-life situations to help students become more confident and independent. Key words are introduced, then reinforced through step-by-step exercises emphasizing word pronunciation, definitions, spelling, handwriting, problem solving, and more! A terrific way to help your students acquire vital life skills! Words Include: deposit, withdraw, overdraft, balance, minimum balance, overdrawn, stock, percentage, and many more. Interest Level 7-12 | Reading Level 4-5 Contents Include: - 7 Lessons - Activities cover: savings & checking accounts, budgets, credit, interest, discounts, and more - Answer key - And more! Skills Covered Include: - Apply math to real-life situations - Apply information - Choose the correct word - Expand vocabulary - Understand meaning of words and ideas - Use context clues - Use dictionary and glossary skills - Develop consumer skills - Find relevant facts - Understand and use reference sources - Understand consumer information - Fill out forms correctly

Help your students develop important survival skills while improving their reading, writing, spelling and vocabulary! This practical book is filled with easy-to-use activities that focus on essential vocabulary and real-life situations to help students become more confident and independent. Key words are introduced, then reinforced through step-by-step exercises emphasizing word pronunciation, definitions, spelling, handwriting, problem solving, and more! A terrific way to help your students acquire vital life skills! Words Include: fitness, leisure, nutrition, acne, hygiene, deodorant, shampoo, poisonous, aspirin, and many more. Interest Level 7-12 | Reading Level 4-5 Contents Include: - 9 Lessons - Activities that cover dental health, hygiene, healthy eating, grooming, first aid, and much more - Answer key Skills Covered Include: - Apply information - Choose the correct word - Expand vocabulary - Understand meaning of words and ideas - Use context clues - Use dictionary and glossary skills - Develop life/survival skills - Find relevant facts - Analyze information - Write an original sentence - Classify information - Make decisions/choices - Develop consumer skills - Understand consumer information - Evaluate information

Help your students develop important survival skills while improving their reading, writing, spelling and vocabulary! This practical book is filled with easy-to-use activities that focus on essential vocabulary and real-life situations to help students become more confident and independent. Key words are introduced, then reinforced through step-by-step exercises emphasizing word pronunciation, definitions, spelling, handwriting, problem solving, and more! A terrific way to help your students acquire vital life skills! Words Include: driver's manual, detour, pedestrian, tenant, vacancy, lease agreement, merchandise, reimburse, and many more. Interest Level 7-12 | Reading Level 4-5 Contents Include: - 7 Lessons - Activities that cover learning to drive, filing an accident report, coupons, newspaper, insurance, and more - Answer key - And more! Skills Covered Include: - Apply information - Choose the correct word - Expand vocabulary - Understand meaning of words and ideas - Use context clues - Use dictionary and glossary skills - Develop consumer skills - Find relevant facts - Understand and use reference sources - Understand consumer information - Analyze information - Fill out forms correctly

SOCIAL SKILLS LESSONS TO IMPROVE EVERYDAY BEHAVIOR. Are you always late? When is it okay to lie? Help students learn about themselves and challenge them to become the best they can be, with these light-hearted and relevant social skills lessons! Each high-interest reading passage is followed by standards-based reading comprehension and sentence writing activities! Real-life scenarios and sticky social situations challenge students to learn about themselves and the consequences of various behaviors such as: always being late, being unable to forgive, being too nice, and more. They also learn the value of being honest, courageous, easy-going, generous, and optimistic. Teens and ‘Experts’ offer helpful advice through text messages and keep things light-hearted and non-threatening. A great way to improve students’ everyday social skills! STANDARDS-BASED READING & WRITING ACTIVITIES: Each social-skills lesson is followed by specific reading comprehension and writing activities that require complete-sentence answers. Additional activities encourage students to ‘look within’ and relate each scenario to themselves and their own daily actions. Finally, students decide how they might better handle each daily scenario in the future. Questions are clearly labeled with the standard/skill that it meets. STANDARDS: • Locate Information • Summarize • Generalize • Compare & Contrast • Cause & Effect • Form Opinions • Draw Conclusions • Main Idea • Make Inferences • Use Context Clues • Sequence • Determine Author’s Viewpoint • Analyze, Evaluate & Apply TOPICS INCLUDE: • How do I know if I’m being a good person? • How can I be honest with my friends without hurting their feelings? • I never have a good day at school! How can I do better? • How can I stop being jealous? • How can I NOT be late all the time? • I want people to trust me. What can I do? • How can I be kind without being a doormat? • Forgiveness is hard. Should I always forgive people? • Why should I be patient? I hate to wait around! • Can being optimistic make me happy? Reading Level: Gr 3 - 4 Interest Level: Gr 6 - 12

Life Skills Activities | Consumer Skills | Reading, Writing, Math | Improve Everyday Reading, Writing, and Math Skills While Improving Consumer Skills… at the Same Time! These easy-to-use & visually interesting activities give students lots of practice with practical application reading, writing, and math as it applies to banking. Bank Account Practice: Credit Cards focuses on everyday-life situations that involve using a credit card. Students will learn how to understand and apply the information on the front and the back of a credit card. After reading a word problem, they will need to decide whether to add, subtract. multiply and/or or divide to arrive at a solution. Some activities require students to know how to figure percentages. Skills Include: • Applying information to real-life situations • Following directions • Reading for details • Finding relevant facts • Solving word problems using the appropriate operations Questions: Question formats vary from multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and writing the answer in an answer box. This Resource Includes: • 46 Slide Pages • Answer key pages

Exercising thinking skills! “What would you do if…?” Posed with numerous real-life dilemmas, students are encouraged to use forethought and complete sentences to reach and express their own decisions. Four quandary situations are presented in each of the 25 lessons in this learning unit. Three involve what may be considered “real life” problems. The fourth activity is of a humorous nature. Reading Level 3-4

Best Buys is the perfect way to build students' math skills while helping them gain a true appreciation for math in everyday living. Students are introduced to real-life scenarios where they must judge a purchase to determine if it is the best possible choice. Students learn to comparison shop, check prices, use coupons, buy in quantities and more! A real, practical application of math!

Math at Home is the perfect way to build students' math skills while helping them gain a true appreciation for math in everyday living. Students read each real-life scenario, then must decide whether to add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve each word problem. Other exercises involve fractions, decimals, percents, and more! A real, practical application of math! Answer key included.

Personal Interactions is part of the Social Skills series. This series takes a somewhat light-hearted approach to presenting important information on topics that will help students navigate the challenges of personal interactions whether it be in person or online. The series was created to appeal especially to teens with playful cartoon characters that students can relate to. Students are provided practical tools – in the form of advice and suggestions – to successfully deal with with everyday issues and situations. Each book has an “expert” character that shares their wisdom throughout each story as well as several teen characters that receive special “Teen Tips,” via text, at the end of each story. Personal interactions are an essential part of being human. How well we interact with others helps to determine how successful and happy we are. Understanding and mastering a specific set of skills leads to effective personal interactions. Through a series of real-life scenarios, students learn how to: make friends, deal with having a crush, stand up for themselves and others, understand the power of nonverbal communication, accept and appreciate people who don’t dress or act like they do, plus much more. Each story has between 400 and 486 words. The reading level is between 2.4 and 4.5 according to the Flesch-Kincaid readability score.Personal Interactions is part of the Social Skills series. This series takes a somewhat light-hearted approach to presenting important information on topics that will help students navigate the challenges of personal interactions whether it be in person or online. The series was created to appeal especially to teens with playful cartoon characters that students can relate to. Students are provided practical tools – in the form of advice and suggestions – to successfully deal with with everyday issues and situations. Each book has an “expert” character that shares their wisdom throughout each story as well as several teen characters that receive special “Teen Tips,” via text, at the end of each story. Personal interactions are an essential part of being human. How well we interact with others helps to determine how successful and happy we are. Understanding and mastering a specific set of skills leads to effective personal interactions. Through a series of real-life scenarios, students learn how to: make friends, deal with having a crush, stand up for themselves and others, understand the power of nonverbal communication, accept and appreciate people who don’t dress or act like they do, plus much more. Each story has between 400 and 486 words. The reading level is between 2.4 and 4.5 according to the Flesch-Kincaid readability score.

Life Skills Activities | Consumer Skills | Reading | Task Cards Improve Reading Comprehension AND Consumer Skills… at the Same Time! These easy-to-use & visually interesting Task Cards describe in detail the process of applying for and getting a bank account. The in-depth information is presented in small, easy-to-understand chunks. Students of multiple skill levels will be able to successfully access the information. This step-by-step approach makes the task cards ideal for explicit instruction, life skills classes, remediation, transition students, special education, and more. Bank Account Basics can be used as a stand-alone unit of instruction or can be used as a companion teaching unit along with Using a Checking Account. “What is a Bank Account?” This first set of task cards introduces students to the concept of banking and the benefits of checking and savings accounts. “Opening a Bank Account” takes students through what is needed to open an account and leads into the steps required to “Apply for a Bank Account.” “Getting a Bank Account” covers what happens after your application has been approved. “Online Banking” explains the process of accessing your bank account online and lists the advantages of online banking. READING SKILLS: Students will get lots of practice reading and interpreting the information presented as they are challenged to find facts, locate information, and read for detail. These task cards prepare students for learning about what it takes to get a credit card. VERSATILE LESSONS: These multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank activities require no writing… making them ideal for daily lessons, review, progress monitoring, enrichment, quiz games, and task cards. All activities are multiple choice or fill in the blank. Includes: 50 Task Cards Answer Key

Life Skills Activities | Internet Shopping | Consumer Skills | Reading Comprehension | Visual Lessons Improve Real-Life Reading Skills While Becoming a Better Shopper! Prepare students for the ‘real world’ with these realistic reading opportunities! Students are introduced to Internet Shopping by learning to read and understand a web page with things like concert tickets and musical instruments for sale. These lessons include 10 highly-visual “cards” each portraying a specific real-life reading challenge. Follow-up comprehension questions require students to refer back to the card as they read, interpret, and use the information. Students are guided to the product information needed for them to make an informed decision before making a purchase. Detailed & Explicit Instruction: Some students need specific and detailed practice as they learn to understand, interpret, and apply what they have read. These realistic lessons are a great way to help students master these essential life skills and become smarter shoppers! Colorful Visual Aids: Ten 8.5" x 11" printable Reading Cards feature sample web pages making these realistic lessons engaging and fun to use. Display them on your interactive white board, upload them to Easel, or simply print them out. In addition, the cards are also included in black and white. Improve Reading Comprehension Skills: After carefully reading through each web page, ten follow-up comprehension questions challenge students to refer back to what they have read, find facts, read for details, locate answers, and then interpret and use this information. Improve Consumer Skills: Once students understand how to use the Internet to shop, they will be able to compare the benefits of shopping online and shopping at a store. This will help them become smarter shoppers and improve their consumer skills. Contents Include: 10 Full-Color, 8.5" x 11", Realistic Reading Internet Shopping Cards Printable pdf lessons. Lessons can also be displayed on your whiteboard or uploaded to Easel or Google Classroom. 10 Black/White, Realistic Reading Advertisement Cards (for easy printing) 100 Follow-Up Comprehension Questions Summary: Each of the 10 highly visual “cards” portray a specific real-life reading challenge. Follow-up questions require students to refer back to the card as they read, interpret, and use the information. Great for individual students, remediation, review, transition classes, or small groups! Reading Level: 3 - 4 Interest Level: 4 - 12

Life Skills Activities | Consumer Skills |Reading, Writing, Math | Improve Everyday Reading, Writing, and Math Skills While Improving Consumer Skills… at the Same Time! These easy-to-use & visually interesting activities give students lots of practice with practical application reading, writing, and math as it applies to banking. Bank Account Practice: Debit Cards focuses on everyday-life situations that involve using a debit card. Students will learn how to understand and apply the information on the front and the back of a debit card. After reading a word problem, they will need to decide whether to add, subtract. multiply and/or or divide to arrive at a solution. Some activities require students to know how to figure percentages. Skills Include: • Applying information to real-life situations • Following directions • Reading for details • Finding relevant facts • Solving word problems using the appropriate operations Questions: Question formats vary from multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and writing the answer in an answer box.

Life Skills Activities | Consumer Skills |Reading, Writing, Math | Google Slides Improve Everyday Reading, Writing, and Math Skills While Improving Consumer Skills… at the Same Time! These easy-to-use & visually interesting digital Task Cards give students lots of practice with practical application reading, writing, and math as it applies to banking. Bank Account Practice: Debit Cards focuses on everyday-life situations that involve using a debit card. Students will learn how to understand and apply the information on the front and the back of a debit card. After reading a word problem, they will need to decide whether to add, subtract, multiply and/or or divide to arrive at a solution. Some activities require students to know how to figure percentages. Skills Include: • Applying information to real-life situations • Following directions • Reading for details • Finding relevant facts • Solving word problems using the appropriate operations VERSATILE & EASY-TO-USE GOOGLE SLIDES: We’ve done the work for you! Simply download these Google Slides and assign them to your students. Assign them all, or just today’s daily lesson! For additional flexibility, these slides can also be printed for in-class use. Question formats vary from multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank – which requires students to drag a circle or word to provide the correct answer – and typing out the answer in an answer box. BENEFITS OF GOOGLE SLIDES: If you’ve been looking for a way to integrate technology into your lessons, this is your answer. And the best part is you don’t have to print, cut, laminate, or replace when you lose pieces…it’s ALL DIGITAL! HOW DO GOOGLE SLIDES WORK? Students read each high-interest story on a computer or iPad then answer the comprehension questions right on their copy of the slides. Teachers can see students’ answers in real time, or review them later. Slides can also be printed and used as colorful classroom worksheets. You can assign a set of slides to each student, so that they have their own personal packet.