Living on Your Own

Teaches housekeeping activities and interpersonal skills

Living on Your Own teaches a wide range of housekeeping activities and related interpersonal skills. Activities include the basics like setting the table and mopping the floor, outdoor maintenance, and living with roommates. The heavily illustrated Survival Guide features vocabulary, step-by-step activity sequences, comprehension quizzes, and photo essays featuring age appropriate models for these 34 activities:

Straightening Up; Using a Hand Vacuum; Taking Out Garbage; Emptying Wastebaskets; Watering Plants; Doing Laundry; Sweeping/Dusting; Shaking Rugs; Indoor Maintenance; Dust Mopping; Cleaning Window;s Caring for Pets: Cleaning Smudges; Cleaning Bathroom; Outdoor Maintenance; Mopping the Floor; Cleaning Shower/Tub; Home Safety Issues; Sponge Mopping; Cleaning Toilet Area; Getting Along with Neighbors; Hand Scrubbing; Putting Clothes Away; Having Roommates; Vacuuming Floors; Changing the Bed; Internet Safety; Vacuuming Carpets;  Doing Dishes; Vacuuming Furniture; Cleaning After a Meal

Living On Your Own Reader is an engaging, photo-illustrated novella with characters about to graduate from high school. It deals with basic transition issues such as finding a job, having relationships, and living independently. Each chapter ends with a set of comprehension
activities: Vocabulary Quiz, Emotion Word Quiz, and Sequence of Events.

Lesson Plans provide topic narratives, student objectives, teacher scripts, plus a PDF CD that includes the Survival Guide, Reader, and Activity Assessment Forms.

Living On Your Own Introductory Kit includes a Survival Guide, a Reader, and Lesson Plans with a PDF CD and Classroom License for printouts. The Classroom Kit includes eight Survival Guides, two Readers, and Lesson Plans with a PDF CD and Classroom License for printouts. The Survival Guide and Reader are also available separately.

By Don Bastian and Tom Kinney. Reader by Elizabeth Conn. Spiralbound books, 2015.

SKU: LYO-11W - Living on Your Own Introductory Kit 
SKU: LYO-21W - Living on Your Own Classroom Kit 
SKU: LYO-01W - Living on Your Own Survival Guide 
SKU: LYO-R01W - Living on Your Own Reader