A housekeeping and interpersonal skill curriculum for students transitioning into adulthood

The heavily-illustrated Survival Guide features vocabulary, step-by-step activity sequences, comprehension quizzes, and photo essays featuring age-appropriate models.

Living On Your Own Reader is an engaging, photo-illustrated novella with characters about to graduate from high school. It covers 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.

The 34 Video segments on DVD are also available through online streaming. Each segment corresponds to a Living on Your Own activity. The videos are fast-paced, fun, and a great way to introduce and initiate group discussion.

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 activities:

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