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Appendix B for learners and instructors to use when documenting their own life skill activities. The worksheet is easy to complete,self-explanatory and is complementary to life skills Learning Goals.The Learning Goals, Expectations and Activity Resources provide the learner and life skill instructor (practitioner or parent) a place tostart when creating a Life Skills Learning Plan. Chapter 2 offers detailed instruction on how to create a Life Skills Learning Plan.Ready, Set, Fly! A Parent’s Guide to Teaching Life SkillsAn important part of the suite of Casey Life Skills tools and companion to the ACLSA and Guidebook, Ready, Set, Fly! A Parent’sGuide to Teaching Life Skills, is a collection of developmentally organized activities that parents may use to teach life skills duringeveryday life. It is useful for any parent seeking information on how to teach life skills at home. Also, child welfare professionals mayuse this resource to provide education for caregivers about teaching life skills. As a guide for parents and/or child welfareprofessionals, the resource offers many creative suggestions to help young people reach their life skill goals. Often just reading aboutthese activities provides ideas for parents to create their own activities that may better fit their child’s needs. Ready, Set, Fly! can beaccessed from www.caseylifeskills.org, and the activities are printable from the web site. Printed copies of Ready, Set, Fly! can also bepurchased.Learning StylesTo make the most of life skills teaching, it is important to know how the person learns best. Different learning styles require differenttypes of teaching. Everyone has a way they learn best. If you tailor teaching to the person’s learning style more learning will likelyoccur. An easy way to think about learning style is to consider the sense the learner relies on the most when learning something for thefirst time. Most people use their sense of sight, sound, touch, or some combination of all three. Visual learners like to see things andare aided by such things as flip charts, videos, pictures, and handouts. Auditory learners like to hear and talk about things and find thatLife Skills Guidebook 20©2004 by Casey Family Programs.