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$856.00
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Sku: 47RLR-10W
Vendor: Attainment

The"¯Real-Life Reader Library"¯is comprised of six titles that feature age-appropriate life skill themes with richly illustrated text and student activity/assessment pages. All the Readers include short stories pertaining to real-life situations while building functional vocabulary and comprehension skills. 

 

  1. Learning to Work"¯is a literacy curriculum for secondary students who are nontraditional readers. The work-themed stories feature a simple, consistent structure that uses repetitive phrases to help students focus on the text. The stories use photographs of specially abled people in actual work settings, like a garden center or medical facility. An activity page encourages readers to talk about their own experiences. 
  2. Social Story Readers"¯teaches reading comprehension with 16 short stories that focus on common social issues. Ideal for students reading at a 2nd grade reading level or below. All stories are presented in a graphic novel style. 
  3. Explore transition issues in an illustrated, short-story format with"¯Self-Determination Readers. The 16 engaging, full-color stories, are written at a third-grade reading level and illustrated in a graphic novel style. Each six- to eight-page story is ideal for one classroom lesson.  Stories include Acting Right Makes Cents and How Rude! 
  4. Do the Right Thing"¯has 25 stories featuring Maria, Bianca, Alan, and Jerome as primary protagonists. Each 6-page story begins with a vocabulary glossary and ends with comprehension questions. Engaging and realistic illustrations support the story line. Text is written in a clear, easy-to-read style, with no more than 100 words per page. 
  5. Connections in the Workplace"¯features 35 stories, featuring Maria and Jerome as the primary protagonists. Each four-page story has a student activity page and vocabulary exercises. Topics covered include cell phone etiquette, avoiding job responsibilities, becoming a trustworthy employee, and appropriate social behavior. 
  6. Dynamite Emotions"¯centers around six stories with young adult characters who experience social or emotional challenges with family, friends, or coworkers. The stories explore the feelings of each character and provide a resolution to their disputes or conflicts. The book begins with an illustrated mini-dictionary of 28 emotions, and each story page features a dynamic and colorful graphic novel style drawing. It examines how emotions affect behavior plus it gives techniques to identify feelings and understand their impact. 

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