Publisher's Synopsis
Themes: LifeSkills, Career, Achieve Independence, Skills, Cars, Driving, Community Resources, Household Tasks, Job Success, Health, Safety, Job Search, Managing Money, Moving, Transportation, Travel, Nonfiction, Handbook, Set, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Sample Set: 10 Books (1 each of 10 Handbooks). Titles include: Health and Safety, Job Search, Managing Money, Moving Out on Your Own, Transportation and Travel, Car and Driver, Community Resources, Consumer Spending, Everyday Household Tasks, and Getting Ahead at Work. Combining practical content with visual appeal, the 21st Century Lifeskills handbooks read more like a magazine than a book. Highly readable with full-color photographs, a smaller trim size and an eye-popping layout, these 120-page handbooks are great for teaching life skills to a twenty-first century population. The 10 handbooks in this series will provide readers a thorough and non-threatening introduction to the multi-dimensional competencies, concepts, and vocabulary they need to achieve independences-- including community resources, job searching, money management, job etiquette, health, moving and more. Used along or in conjunction with the 21st Century Lifeskills worktexts, these handbooks offer students a unique and visual way to achieve real-world literacy.
