What YOU Need to Know about Living on Your Own! Help students prepare for the real-life challenges of living on their own with these essential new life skills lessons! Part of the new Independent Living Series, Getting a Place to Live provides practical advice and helpful information to teach students how to successfully prepare for, locate, and even rent an apartment. This essential program offers a large, easy-to-read font, colorful photos, and a low reading level to ensure these lessons are accessible and usable for all students. (See the product preview for more sample pages). ENGAGING LESSONS: These sequential lessons walk students through key topics and guides them along the path to Independent Living. The first section, Preparation, begins with creating a housing budget and progresses to helpful tips on finding a good roommate. The second section, Renting, gives students valuable information about finding the right place to live. They learn how to interpret rental terminology and abbreviations and how to read rental ads. They learn what to expect when meeting a landlord, filling out a rental application, and signing a rental agreement. The last section, Moving, guides students through the process of transferring utility service, packing, and then renting and loading a moving truck. FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES: READING, WRITING & MATH! Follow-up activities include practical application math, basic comprehension questions to reinforce understanding, and practical writing exercises. Some questions ask students to think about the information given and express their opinions and ideas. VOCABULARY: These essential lessons include a glossary of key words and phrases students may not be familiar with plus activities to test understanding of the new words and phrases. These words and phrases are highlighted in bold throughout the text. Google Slides: 120 Interactive Google Slides! What YOU Need to Know about Living on Your Own! Help students prepare for the real-life challenges of living on their own with these essential new life skills Google Slides lessons! Part of the new Independent Living Series, Getting a Place to Live provides practical advice and helpful information to teach students how to successfully prepare for, locate, and even rent an apartment. This essential program offers a large, easy-to-read font, colorful photos and illustrations, and a low reading level to ensure these lessons are accessible and usable for all students. (See the product preview for TONS of sample pages).READY-TO-USE: These ready-to-use lessons are sure to save you time! Simply download and start assigning them to your students. Assign the entire set or just a few for today’s lesson. TABLE OF CONTENTS: SECTION ONE: Preparation…1-22 Housing Budget Location Search Types of Housing Choosing a Roommate Creating an Ad & Interviewing Qualities of a Good Roommate Andrew’s Housing Budget Online advertising Brittney and Amy Roommate Rules Review SECTION TWO: Renting … 23-45 Rental Words to Know Sample Rental Ads Finding the Right Place Meeting the Landlord Sample Rental Application Rental Agreement Rental Advice SECTION THREE: Moving … 46-53 Planning Your Move Packing Renting a Moving Vehicle Loading and Unloading the Truck SECTION FOUR: Glossary & VOCABULARY…54-59 Glossary Match-Up Glossary Fill-in-the-Blank

Want those $300 Nike’s? Then it might be time to get your first job! There’s a lot to know when it comes to getting AND keeping your first job! These High-Interest Reading Activities are sure to teach students about this essential life skill! Students learn vital tips about finding and getting their first job, interviewing, writing a resume and cover letter, being a good worker, understanding payroll deductions, dealing with unpleasant customers, demanding supervisors, and much more… Getting Your First Job Features Engaging Reading, Comprehension & Life Skills Activities that students WILL WANT TO READ ABOUT! These life skills lessons focus on the things young workers need to know. Teens and ‘Experts’ offer helpful advice through colorful text messages, while the high-interest reading passages challenge students to learn more about this essential life skill. HIGH-INTEREST TOPICS: What are some different types of jobs? Where should you look for a job? What should you NOT wear to an interview? Who is FICA… and why is he taking your money? What should you do if you hate your job? These high-interest lessons answer these questions and many more in a light-hearted, easy-reading style that readers will LOVE! (See Product Preview for additional Samples) EASY-TO-READ, ENGAGING LAYOUT: Colorful characters teach essential concepts through graphic text messages, cartoon conversations, and lighthearted reading passages. Important concepts are woven throughout this fun format keeping students highly engaged while also improving their reading comprehension skills. 280 COMPREHENSION & WRITING ACTIVITIES: Each of the 14 high-interest lessons is followed by 20 specific reading comprehension questions and writing activities that require complete-sentence answers. Thats 280 comprehension AND writing activities! Google Slides: 134 Engaging, High-Interest Google Slides about Getting Your First Job! Students learn vital tips about finding and getting their first job, interviewing, writing a resume and cover letter, being a good worker, understanding payroll deductions, dealing with unpleasant customers, demanding supervisors, and much more… ALIGNED TO STANDARDS: Each question is clearly labeled with the standard that it meets. Standards include: Locate Information Apply, Analyze Compare/Contrast Draw Conclusions Evaluate Information Form an Opinion Make Inferences Make Generalizations Sequence Summarize Find Solutions Use Context to find Meaning Research HANDY SKILL CHART: Need to work on a specific skill or standard? Use the handy Skill Chart to quickly find a chapter that targets that specific skill! 14 HIGH-INTEREST TOPICS: Want Those $300 Nikes? I Guess it’s Time to Get a Job! I Don’t Know How to Do Anything... How Can I Get a Job? How Do I Find a Job? Do I Need a Resume? Can I Wear Shorts and Flip Flops to My Interview? I’m Too Nervous! How Can I Do an Interview? I Don’t Know if I Got the Job. Now What? I Got the Job...How Do I Keep It? I Hate My Job...Should I Quit? How Much Money Will I Make? Who is FICA and Why is He Taking My Money? Can You Get Bullied at Work? My Boss is a Jerk! What Should I Do? The Customer is ALWAYS Right... Right?

Big Banking Bundle * Lessons & Practice Activities * Life Skills * Consumer Skills * Introduce students to the Basics of Banking, Checking Accounts, Debit Cards and Credit Cards with this big bundle of easy-to-use & visually interesting lessons! Step-by-Step Engaging Instruction: Lessons teach basic consumer banking and credit concepts, while detailed practice activities “walk” students through the various tasks required when using a checking account, ATM, debit card or credit card. The explicit information and step-by-step approach makes these lessons ideal for life skills classes, remediation, transition students, special education, and more. These highly-visual lessons are sure to keep students engaged! THIS BUNDLE INCLUDES 8 TITLES: Lessons are presented in small pieces with an easy-to-understand format. Students of multiple skill levels will be able to successfully access the information. Bank Account Basics: Opening a Bank Account Filling out an Application Online Banking Using a Checking Account General Bank Account Information Using a Checking Account: Writing a Check Filling Out a Deposit Slip Using a Debit Card How To Use an ATM - Step-by-Step Instructions Using Mobile Apps Shopping Online How to Use a Point Of Sale Terminal at a Store - Step-by-Step Instructions Using a Transaction Register Bank Account Practice- Checks: Includes TONS of easy-to-use check-writing practice activities. Filling out Deposit Slips Writing Checks Keeping Track of Deposits & Withdrawals Filling out Transaction Registers Solving Real-Life Math Word Problems Students decide whether to add, subtract, multiply and/or or divide to arrive at a solution. Bank Account Practice- Debit Cards: Includes TONS of debit card practice activities. Understand & Apply the Information found on debit cards Solving Real-Life Word Problems using Debit Cards Decide whether to add, subtract, multiply or or divide to arrive at a solution. Some activities require students to know how to figure percentages. Credit Card Basics: What is a credit card? What are the parts of a credit card? Types of Credit Cards Credit Card Vocabulary Getting a Credit Card: Filling out Forms- Credit Applications Credit References Your Credit History What is a Credit Score? Pro’s and Con’s of Credit Cards Using a Credit Card: How to Buy on Credit What are Credit Limits Ways to Use a Credit Card Credit Card Statements How to Use a Credit Card Responsibly Credit Card Practice: Types of Credit Cards Math Practice Using Credit Cards to Make Purchases Real-Life Scenarios This Series Focuses on the Following Skills: Students will get lots of practice reading and interpreting the information presented: • Applying information to real-life situations • Following directions • Reading for details • Finding relevant facts • Solving word problems using the appropriate operations • Writing numbers in different forms VERSATILE LESSONS: Multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and writing in the answer box activities require very little writing… making them ideal for daily lessons, review, progress monitoring, enrichment, quiz games, and task cards. 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.

Divide and Conquer with Phonics Rules! The study of phonics helps students divide words into small parts to conquer their reading problems. By using this powerful tool, your students can achieve improved reading performance. Part I is a teacher reference guide that provides you with a thorough knowledge of phonics. You’ll see all the most important phonics rules and the most important exceptions, along with patterns, examples, and explanations. These are presented to you in a logical progression of concepts, each building on the last. Part II offers reproducible worksheets and activities to help students reinforce basic phonics rules. These include interesting and short exercises working with vowels, consonants, syllables and more. Patterns and examples are also featured to make it easier for students to improve their pronunciation and word recognition. Altogether, this information-packed unit will help: you teach reading more effectively! raise your students reading levels! Grade Level K-3 | Interest Level 3-12 Google Slides: AT LAST… A PHONICS PROGRAM FOR OLDER STUDENTS…AND TEACHERS TOO! * 167 ready-to-use Google Classroom Lessons & Activities designed to help students of all ages conquer reading! Now you can Divide and Conquer with Phonics Rules! This unique and interactive Google Slides program sets you and your students up for success! It includes a complete ‘phonics refresher’ teacher manual followed by the corresponding student version of the phonics activities & lessons. These colorful lessons are straightforward, and suitable for students of ALL AGES who need additional phonics and decoding practice to reach mastery level. The art is NOT “BABYISH.” Check out the product preview to see tons of sample pages. :) This unique resource helps students divide words into small parts to conquer their reading problems. By using this powerful tool, your students can achieve improved reading performance. Part I is a teacher reference guide that provides you with a thorough knowledge of phonics. You’ll see all the most important phonics rules and the most important exceptions, along with patterns, examples, and explanations. These are presented to you in a logical progression of concepts, each building on the last. Part II offers student lessons and activities to help learners reinforce basic phonics rules. These include interesting and short exercises working with vowels, consonants, syllables and more. Patterns and examples are also featured to make it easier for students to improve their pronunciation and word recognition. Fun-to-Read & Complete! Slides feature short, colorful lessons that students will WANT to complete! Every short lesson is followed by specific activities targeting that specific phonics skill. A variety of fun formats keep things interesting as students drag and drop, cross out, circle, write words and more. These lessons are ideal for distance learning, remediation, daily enrichment, homework, and review! Easy-to-Use! We’ve done the work for you! With this easy-to-use set you won’t have to waste time searching through books and activities to create a program to help your students succeed. Simply add these Interactive Google Slides to your Google Drive Classroom. You can assign specific slides to specific students, or assign to the whole class! Watch students work in real-time, or check their progress later. These skill-building activities are helpful for: Older students who have not yet reached mastery levels Middle school through adult students who have a reading or learning disability Good students who are laborious readers Anyone interested in enhancing their pronunciation, spelling, and reading skills English as a second language students (ESL)

Engaging Lessons, Tips, & Techniques to help students learn how to find AND get a Job! * Job Search * Applying for a Job * Resume * Cover Letter * Interview * Wages * Salary * Real-life Situations * Help students prepare for the real-life challenges of getting a job with these new life-skills lessons! The first step towards REAL independence is getting a job… But how do you FIND one… and how do you GET one? These life-skills lessons help students learn the best tips, strategies, and techniques for Getting a Job! These realistic lessons answer many questions such as, “Do I need a resume?” “How do I stand out?” “What should I wear to an interview?” “What should I ask?” “How do I choose between two job offers?” and more… Google Slides: 136 Ready-to-Use Google Slides! Engaging Lessons, Tips, & Techniques to help students learn how to find AND get a Job! * Finding Jobs * Applying for a Job * Resumes * Cover Letters * Interviews * Wages * Salaries * Real-life Situations * Help students prepare for the real-life challenges of getting a job with these new life-skills Google Slides lessons! (see the product preview to see TONS of sample pages). TOPICS INCLUDE: Finding a Job: Students learn about the various ways to find a job using online companies such as Monster.com, Indeed.com, CareerBuilder.com and Snagajob.com. Lessons also help focus on employment agencies, company websites, networking, want ads, and more. Applying for a Job: Students learn about creating memorable cover letters, successful resumes, and completing job applications. Job Interviews: Lessons cover what to wear, the importance of being punctual, what to say and questions to ask. Job Details: Students are introduced to the world of wages, salaries, commissions, benefits, paid holidays, sick days, health insurance & more. Real-life Situations: Students get realistic hands-on practice as they follow five people through their job searches from the beginning of the process all the way to the end. READY-TO-USE: These ready-to-use pdf lessons are sure to save you time! Simply download and start assigning them to your students. THE INDEPENDENT LIVING SERIES: Part of the new Independent Living Series, Getting a Job provides practical advice and helpful information to teach students how to successfully prepare for, locate, and get a job. This series offers a large, easy-to-read font, colorful photos and illustrations, and a low reading level to ensure these lessons are accessible and usable for all students. (See the product preview for more sample pages). FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES: READING, WRITING & MATH! Follow-up activities include practical application math, basic comprehension questions to reinforce understanding, and practical writing exercises. Some questions ask students to think about the information given and express their opinions and ideas. VOCABULARY: These essential lessons include a glossary of key words and phrases students may not be familiar with plus activities to test understanding of the new words and phrases. These words and phrases are highlighted in bold throughout the text. ENGAGING LESSONS: These sequential lessons walk students through key topics and guides them along the path towards Independent Living.

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. 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. 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 set includes all three Bank Account Practice Google Classroom Task Cards: Debit Cards Credit Cards Checks 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 the answer into 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.

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. 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. 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 set includes all three Bank Account Practice Ebooks: Debit Cards Credit Cards Checks

Life Skills | Food Prep Directions | Simple Cooking | Measurement | Reading Comprehension | Special Education | Ready-to-Use | Learning how to carefully read food packaging & cooking directions, then prepare a meal is truly an essential life skill. These ready-to-use lessons are sure to help students master this life skill and become more confident and independent when making simple meals. INCLUDES BOTH PACKAGED FOOD DIRECTIONS BOOKS. SKILL-BASED VISUAL LESSONS: Students carefully read popular, pre-packaged food boxes, then answer relevant food prep and cooking questions. These realistic and highly-visual activities get students using environmental print as they read for details, locate information, use context clues, sequence events, use measurements, determine cooking times and more. FOOD FAVORITES: Students are sure to LOVE learning how to cook their favorite snacks and meals. From Frozen Chicken Nuggets to Blueberry Muffins , your students will get their fill with these popular and solidly-conceived life-skills lessons. REAL FOOD PACKAGING! Each lesson features a popular and easy-to-prepare, REAL food item that can be easily purchased and prepared at home after learning. Cooking methods involve using the microwave, stove top, oven and refrigerator. COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES: Multiple-choice comprehension questions challenge students to read each food box carefully. Questions require students to read for details, locate information, use context clues, sequence recipe steps, determine cooking times, understand measurements and more… Basic kitchen and measuring terms are used throughout, giving students opportunities to expand their vocabulary along the way. There are nine questions per food package. VERSATILE LESSONS: These multiple-choice activities require very limited writing, making them ideal for daily lessons, review, progress monitoring, enrichment, quiz games, and task cards. EASY TO USE! You’re going to love these ready-to-use printable lessons. Just print and go! Includes: 60+ pages answer key

Life Skills Activities | Consumer Skills | Reading | Task Cards | Google Slides Improve Reading Comprehension AND Consumer Skills… at the Same Time! This set of easy-to-use & visually interesting digital Task Cards provides everything students need to know about credit cards. 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. A step-by-step approach makes these task cards ideal for explicit instruction, life skills classes, remediation, transition students, special education and more. The combination of Credit Card Basics, Getting a Credit Card, and Using a Credit Card offer a complete unit of instruction on this essential consumer skill. 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 quick Google 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. 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! Each lesson includes 10 multiple choice questions making them ideal for assessment, review, quiz cards and more… These easy-to-use lessons do not require writing or typing. All questions are multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank which requires students to drag a circle or word to provide the correct answer. 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.

Life Skills Activities | Consumer Skills | Reading | Task Cards | Improve Reading Comprehension AND Consumer Skills… at the Same Time! This bundle of easy-to-use & visually interesting Task Cards provides everything students need to know about credit cards. 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. A step-by-step approach makes these task cards ideal for explicit instruction, life skills classes, remediation, transition students, special education and more. The combination of Credit Card Basics, Getting a Credit Card, and Using a Credit Card offer a complete unit of instruction on this essential consumer skill. IMPROVE 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 quick 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 very little 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: 135 task cards Answer Key

A LESSON-A-DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF SPRING! ENGAGING READING COMPREHENSION LESSONS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE MONTH! INCLUDES MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY! For years you’ve loved our Daily Comprehension Series… Now we’ve created a whole new series emphasizing captivating events that have happened in the 21st Century! Featuring celebrities, inventors, sports, scientific discoveries, dramatic events and more… this series is sure to give you an unending supply of relevant and intriguing daily reading lessons. Each high-Interest passage is followed by a full page of skill-specific comprehension activities designed to sharpen essential reading skills. This lesson-a-day series is sure to become a classroom favorite! Ideal for bell work, enrichment, remediation and review. All captivating events happened in the last 20 years! This is a growing series that will eventually include the entire school year. Reading Level: Grades 3 - 4 Interest Level: Grades 5 - 12 MORE DETAILS: This 21st Century Daily Comprehension resource is an updated version of our popular Daily Comprehension series. A high-interest, nonfiction story has been chosen for each day of the month. The stories are a combination of historical, scientific, record-breaking, sports, and pop culture events that happened on that particular day. All of the stories are about events that occurred during the 21st Century. Care was taken to choose topics that appeal to a wide-range of interests. Students will learn some serious and some fun facts while improving their reading skills. A page of skill-based questions follows each story. Comprehension skills include: facts, locating the answer, cause and effect, fact or opinion, sequence, main idea, conclusion, inference, context, and comparison.

Single Skill Practice for Reading Success! Provide your students with solid reading comprehension practice. This set features 6 books with short reading passages sorted by difficulty–from low to high reading level. This progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level and then move on to higher levels as their skills improve. Reading levels begin at 2.0 and progress to 3.5 according to Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale. A single, multiple choice question follows each reading passage and guides students to comprehend what they’ve read. Perfect for skill reinforcement and assessment! Ideal for individual students, large groups, and as a center activity. 400+ total slides Teacher’s Guide Pages Answer Sheets Answer Key Comprehension Skills Progress Report Sheet