Life Skills are the skills that one needs to live and work in a community successfully and independently. This resource provides an evidenced-based year long curriculum. The curriculum is structured and visually based. It breaks down larger skills into manageable steps, embeds assessments, and utilizes data-based decision making.
This curriculum includes 8 units plus a review unit! Each unit includes:
- a pre-test and post-test
- grading rubric with data-based decision making component
- anchor chart(s)
- 20 pages of activities
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2 detailed task-analysis style data sheets to provide steps for teaching and monitoring hands-on skill progression
- all real photos
Also included in this resource:
- 2 types of lesson plan templates
- detailed curriculum map
- 2 types of data sheets
Level 2 focuses on introducing basic life skills concepts and vocabulary through application and problem solving. The topics covered in this level are:
- grocery shopping: categorizing, identifying price, expiration dates, payment methods
- eating in the community: ordering from a menu, identifying price, sit-down/drive through/fast food restaurants, restaurant behavior
- clothing and laundry: putting clothes away, doing laundry, matching clothes to season and temperature
- cleaning: cleaning supplies functions, chores by room, steps to specific cleaning tasks
- cooking and kitchen: kitchen safety, reading a recipe, kitchen appliances
- public transportation: bike rules, rules and steps to using four methods of public transportation
- mechanics and repair vocabulary: identifying tools and their functions, using batteries, simple household repairs
- technology: internet safety, internet vocabulary, making phone calls and sending text messages
This curriculum is designed to use one page of activities per day. Your life skills instruction for the entire year is planned! Over 180+ activities are included! This subject is designed to complement our Functional Literacy and Functional Math Curriculums. These subjects focus on literacy and math skills using real-world-based texts and exemplars. The Life Skills Curriculum expands on this learning to include a range of household and community-based skills.
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