Life Skills Reading: ADS & COUPONS - Visual Comprehension & Consumer Activities


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Life Skills Activities | Using Coupons | Consumer Skills | Reading Comprehension | Visual Lessons Improve Real-Life Reading Skills While Becoming a Smarter Shopper! Prepare students for the 'real world' with these realistic reading opportunities! Whether using a coupon when ordering pizza, saving money at the grocery store, finding the best deal on a TV, or getting a discount on a haircut, using ads and coupons to get a good deal is a part of everyday life. These lessons include 10 highly-visual "cards" each portraying a specific real-life reading challenge. Follow-up comprehension questions require students to refer back to the card as they read, interpret, and use the information. Detailed & Explicit Instruction: Some students need specific and detailed practice as they learn to understand, interpret, and apply what they have read. These realistic lessons are a great way to help students master these essential life skills and become smart shoppers! Colorful Visual Aids: Ten 8" x 11" printable Reading Cards feature sample ads and coupons making these realistic lessons engaging and fun to use. Display them on your interactive white board, upload them to Easel, or simply print them out. In addition, the cards are also included in black and white. Improve Reading Comprehension Skills: After carefully reading through each ad or coupon, ten follow-up comprehension questions challenge students to refer back to what they have read, find facts, read for details, locate answers, and then interpret and use this information. Improve Consumer Skills: Once students understand the benefits of paying attention to the savings offered by using ads and coupons when they shop, they are sure to become smarter shoppers and improve their consumer skills. Contents Include: 10 Full-Color, Realistic Reading Advertisement Cards of (measure 8.5"x11"). Printable pdf lessons. Lessons can also be displayed on your whiteboard or uploaded to Easel or Google Classroom. 10 Black/White, Realistic Reading Advertisement Cards (for easy printing) 100 Follow-Up Comprehension Questions Summary: Each of the 10 highly visual "cards" portray a specific real-life reading challenge. Follow-up questions require students to refer back to the card as they read, interpret, and use the information. Great for individual students, remediation, review, transition classes, or small groups! Reading Level: 3 - 4 Interest Level: 4 - 12




Life Skills Reading: INTERNET SHOPPING - Visual Comprehension & Consumer Activities


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Life Skills Activities | Internet Shopping | Consumer Skills | Reading Comprehension | Visual Lessons Improve Real-Life Reading Skills While Becoming a Better Shopper! Prepare students for the 'real world' with these realistic reading opportunities! Students are introduced to Internet Shopping by learning to read and understand a web page with things like concert tickets and musical instruments for sale. These lessons include 10 highly-visual "cards" each portraying a specific real-life reading challenge. Follow-up comprehension questions require students to refer back to the card as they read, interpret, and use the information. Students are guided to the product information needed for them to make an informed decision before making a purchase. Detailed & Explicit Instruction: Some students need specific and detailed practice as they learn to understand, interpret, and apply what they have read. These realistic lessons are a great way to help students master these essential life skills and become smarter shoppers! Colorful Visual Aids: Ten 8.5" x 11" printable Reading Cards feature sample web pages making these realistic lessons engaging and fun to use. Display them on your interactive white board, upload them to Easel, or simply print them out. In addition, the cards are also included in black and white. Improve Reading Comprehension Skills: After carefully reading through each web page, ten follow-up comprehension questions challenge students to refer back to what they have read, find facts, read for details, locate answers, and then interpret and use this information. Improve Consumer Skills: Once students understand how to use the Internet to shop, they will be able to compare the benefits of shopping online and shopping at a store. This will help them become smarter shoppers and improve their consumer skills. Contents Include: 10 Full-Color, 8.5" x 11", Realistic Reading Internet Shopping Cards Printable pdf lessons. Lessons can also be displayed on your whiteboard or uploaded to Easel or Google Classroom. 10 Black/White, Realistic Reading Advertisement Cards (for easy printing) 100 Follow-Up Comprehension Questions Summary: Each of the 10 highly visual "cards" portray a specific real-life reading challenge. Follow-up questions require students to refer back to the card as they read, interpret, and use the information. Great for individual students, remediation, review, transition classes, or small groups! Reading Level: 3 - 4 Interest Level: 4 - 12




NICSEM Mini-index to Special Education Materials


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Digital and Social Media Marketing


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This book examines issues and implications of digital and social media marketing for emerging markets. These markets necessitate substantial adaptations of developed theories and approaches employed in the Western world. The book investigates problems specific to emerging markets, while identifying new theoretical constructs and practical applications of digital marketing. It addresses topics such as electronic word of mouth (eWOM), demographic differences in digital marketing, mobile marketing, search engine advertising, among others. A radical increase in both temporal and geographical reach is empowering consumers to exert influence on brands, products, and services. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and digital media are having a significant impact on the way people communicate and fulfil their socio-economic, emotional and material needs. These technologies are also being harnessed by businesses for various purposes including distribution and selling of goods, retailing of consumer services, customer relationship management, and influencing consumer behaviour by employing digital marketing practices. This book considers this, as it examines the practice and research related to digital and social media marketing.




Everyday Life Math


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The reproducible lessons in each of the six books in this series presents topics students are likely to encounter in everyday life. Each book contains problems that involve estimation, equations, mental math, calculators, and critical thinking. Additional concept-specific skills in each book include graphing, averages, statistics, ratios, and measurement. These 112-page reproducible books include teacher notes and tips, answer keys, reference guides, lessons, unit reviews, and more. Units include: Personal Care, Health, Getting Around, Managing Time, Community, Thinking About the Future, Thrifty Thinking, Sustaining the World.




180 Days of Reading for Fifth Grade: Practice, Assess, Diagnose


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Encourage fifth-grade students to build their reading comprehension and word study skills using daily practice activities. Great for after school, intervention, or homework, teachers and parents can help students gain regular practice through these quick, diagnostic-based activities that are correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards. Both fiction and nonfiction reading passages are provided as well as data-driven assessment tips and digital versions of the assessment analysis tools and activities. With these easy-to-use activities, fifth graders will boost their reading skills in a hurry!




Social Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs


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A flexible, ready-to-use activities program to help special students in grades 6-12 The updated new edition of this valuable resource offers an exciting collection of 200 ready-to-use worksheets to help adolescents build the social skills they need to interact effectively with others and learn how to apply these skills to various real-life settings, situations, and problems. The book provides 20 complete teaching units focusing on 20 basic social skills, such as being a good listener, "reading" other people, and using common sense.




School, Family, and Community Partnerships


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Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.




WALC 6


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Provides a comprehensive series of tasks and functional carryover activities allowing for integration of language and cognitive skills for neurologically-impaired adolescents and adults with diverse levels of functioning. Exercises cover a broad scope of skills including orientation, auditory comprehension, verbal expression, and reading comprehension.




How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism Or Asperger's


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The co-author of "Asperger's and Girls" presents a no-nonsense guide to teaching children with Asperger's or autism the life skills they will need to function as an adult.