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**Life Skills Activities for Special Children
Book Description:
Mannix, Darlene / Desmond, Carrie
505 .100 MAN
For all Educators of special learners, here are 145 ready-to-use lessons and reproducible line master worksheets
that help children acquire the basic skills necessary to achieve independence and success in everyday living.
Each lesson places a specific skill within the context of real-life situations. It gives special children the extra focus
they need to understand how to fit into the real world and how to develop the skills needed to become more
independent in their homes, at schools, and in the community.
Conveniently organized into four sections and subdivided into 20 specific areas of development, this resource
gives you sources of carefully paced, fun-to-do activities covering:
--Basic Survival Skills: The 49 activities in this section help special children learn at their own pace the skills they
need to communicate basic information to others, use a telephone, handle money, tell time, read and understand
signs, and cope with everyday stress.
--Personal Independence: These 37 challenging activities help special children gain the skills they need to take
care of themselves, including shopping, dressing appropriately, developing a healthy lifestyle, and maintaining
good personal hygiene.
--Community Independence: The 32 activities in this section teach the special child how to get around the
community safely, read and understand schedules, and behave properly in public.
--Getting Along With Others: This final section contains 27 activities that help students develop the social skills
they need to interact with the people around them, including learning how to cooperate with others, understand
different points of view, and demonstrate good manners in a variety of situations.
For easy and effective use, each area of development comes with a reproducible Letter to Parents, informing
them what their children are learning and a ready-to-be-filled-in progress report. Each activity gives you
step-by-step directions, teaching suggestions, learning objectives, and answer keys.
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
Henkes, Kevin
FIC .151 HEN
Lilly the mouse idolizes her teacher Mr. Slinger, but when she comes to school flaunting three jingly quarters,
movie-star glasses and a purple plastic purse "that played a jaunty tune when it was opened," she interrupts Mr.
Slinger's lessons on "Types of Cheese" and words that rhyme with "mice." After one too many disruptions, he
confiscates the purse until the day's end. Lilly, humiliated, takes revenge by slipping a mean drawing into Mr.
Slinger's book bag?only to open her purse and find a conciliatory note from her hero. Caldecott honoree Henkes
(Owen) understands Lilly's enthusiasm for her prize possessions, but astutely shows that Lilly goes too far when
she acts up in class ("She's in trouble," whispers a classmate in a voice-bubble aside). The perfectionistic
watercolor-and-ink illustrations, in vignettes and panels, are as sharp as the narration. Henkes communicates
Lilly's emotions through her eyes, so that when she goes from "sad" to "furious," her eyebrows shift from
U-shaped dips to hard slants; he also enlivens his scenes with tiny details, like Mr. Slinger's copy of Stuart Little.
The author/artist offers useful, timeless advice for apologizing to a friend and resolving a conflict. A sympathetic
and wise treatment.
--Publisher's Weekly
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse 1st ed.
Henkes, Kevin.
FIC .151 HEN
Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing
her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.
Listen, Buddy
Lester, Helen. / Munsinger, Lynn. FIC .051 LES
Buddy's father had a beautiful big nose. He was a great sniffer. Buddy's mother had beautiful big teeth. She was
a great chomper. Buddy had beautiful big ears. It didn't matter. Helen Lester and Lynn Munsinger have created
eight children's books together. Munsinger's unparalleled animal characters and Lester's hysterical text have
joined together to create another silly tale about a bunny who just can't seem to listen.
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