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.
Skills include dealing with identity theft, cell phone manners, budgeting, eating healthy meals, using credit cards, time management, and much more. Includes numerous reproducible parent letters: send these to help parents reinforce the lessons while children are away from school.