Life Skills Teacher Pack

Life Skills Solution

Life Skills is a special edition of Failure Free Reading that teaches cognitively challenged secondary-adult students to read age & developmentally appropriate content. Perfect for self-contained, resource or community-based instruction classes. Life Skills can be used with the basic English or social skills curriculum.

Failure Free Reading Printed Materials

Based on the notion that all reading programs work but not for all students, Failure Free Reading’s non-phonic first reading intervention is the front-end for your lowest literacy special education and beginning English Language Learners students who are not reading well enough to benefit from more advanced leveled literacy interventions.

Failure Free Reading Print is a nationally recognized, non-consumable reading intervention specifically designed for students who need a non-phonic first alternative or for your over-aged students who have mastered basic phonics and decoding skills but still lack solid comprehension and expressive fluency.

Failure Free Reading Print focuses on the research-based best practices designed to significantly produce critical growth in comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, writing, and independent reading instruction. Easy to use and highly redundant Failure Free Reading Print gives chronically struggling students the opportunity to master critical academic words essential to future reading success within the simplest and most comprehensible connected text. Failure Free Reading is the first intervention to specifically control for the eight content roadblocks preventing chronically struggling readers to read for meaning.

Life Skills is for students/children/adolescents/adults reading with a 0.0-5th grade reading level and IQs as low as 35. Life Skills is suitable for: Ages 12-Adults: early reading, beginning English Language Learners, at-risk, and special education populations: autism, learning disabilities, intellectually disabled, deaf/HH and dyslexics.

Life Skills teaches mastery of the critical vocabulary essential for reading success such as: the most common words and critical life skill vocabulary centering on four themes: getting an apartment, getting a driver’s license, getting the facts on drugs and getting a job.

Life Skills is designed to give students with reading abilities as low as 0.0 and cognitive IQs of 35 and higher the chance to read with fluency and comprehension from age appropriate theme and appearance. 

Life Skills is designed to:

• significantly enhance vocabulary, expressive fluency, comprehension and self confidence for the student
• teach mastery of critical 3rd grade academic English words
• teach complex text

When finished, your student/child will have completed

• 36 Units of Instruction

Life Skills helps the Teacher/Parent by providing:

• access to the Life Skills Electronic Library (and included in the Teacher Pack), which includes:
  • Scripted Teacher/Parent Manuals for Instruction
  • Independent Activities (pencil & paper printable activities)
  • Flash Cards
  • Complex Text Stories
  • Criterion Reference Tests
  • Parent Communication Packs
  • Writing Composition Activities

• Scaffold learning in ways that would be impractical to provide otherwise.
• Scripted lessons & software eliminate extra prep time

Now, even your hardest-to-reach learners, those reading, as low as 0.0, can develop effective communication skills, work habits, job interview skills, and self-confidence - all while learning to read!