Coping with Covid & Distance Learning Workbook

Coping with COVID and Distance Learning provides instruction in adult living skills and transitional skills for both mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike and provides adult living skills for special needs teens to meet federal transition mandates. It is a stand-alone unit providing students with skills to live independently by being able to create a balanced daily schedule in this time of crisis.

With teachers moving to distance teaching and communities on lockdown, Coping with COVID and Distance Learning from Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills is the tool you need to help students organize their lives while confined to their homes. This version of the book has clip-art that is a little more literal for students who may need that support.

Like the other books in this series, it contains airy pages and bullet-point information for easy, independent study, yet, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated Indicator 13 skills and transition skills needed for adult independence. Carefully researched information on the virus and behavior during lockdown are provided in a calm, reassuring manner.

Written on about the 3rd/4th-grade level, workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-four page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real-world activities are provided whenever possible.

Lessons in Daily Living Skills’ Sheltering in Place include:

What is COVID-19?
What is social distancing?
Why shelter in place?
Flattening the curve
Keeping the numbers in perspective
Stopping the spread
Hands–wash them
Elbows–cough into them
Face–don’t touch it
Space–keep your distance
Home–stay there if you can
What are essential workers/services?
Myth busters
What to expect when you SIP
Building a daily schedule
Making regular meals
Creating work time, exercise time, personal time
De-stressing and devotional time, sleep time
Slipping in household chores
Keeping a gratitude journal
What to do when worry takes over
Resources

Additionally, this book provides a student grading sheet, answer key, and a Parent Letter suggesting at-home activities for families in accordance with federal mandates for parent involvement.

In the spirit of us all helping each other, this book is offered free of charge. Please help spread this offering by distributing it to your friends and colleagues.