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Media Center Holdings- with Call Number and Librarian Notes
01 Apr 2011 12:44 PM
Monarch Media Center
Title Author
Call Number
Resource Type: Books
Attainment's Connections in the Workplace : Stride, June / Zammit, Anthony
Social Skills Reader: Teacher's Guide Teacher
Explore relevant on-the-job social situations in an illustrated, short story format.
Student Reader and Teacher's Guide:
565 .432 STR
The Student Reader includes 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.
The Teacher's Guide provides several additional worksheets per story that assess comprehension, vocabulary
and the understanding of the underlying social skills. Use the PDF on CD for easy printouts of activity pages and
full-color stories.
Covered spiralbound Teacher's Guide, black and white, 155 pgs., plus Win/Mac CD with printable PDF. Student
Reader, covered spiralbound book, full color, 216 pgs., 2007.
The Connections in the Workplace eReader Software incorporates Attainment's eReader software which reads
the stories aloud to students with professional narration. Text is highlighted word by word, line by line, or by
complete sentence. Graphics are plentiful, contemporary and age-appropriate. A test at the end of each story
provides speech support and an optional hint feature that directs students to the page that addresses each
question. Students can access the software by mouse, touch screen, IntelliKeys or single switch. A unified
management system helps the teacher quickly review or print out student performance data. Teachers can
determine reading lists and set options that best suit each student's learning style. Choose word-by-word or
natural speech narration, select the text highlighting approach and assign tests. eReader software is Windows
only, 2000 or higher.
Student Reader and Teacher's Guide are available separately. The eReader software is available separately and
as a set of five. A Student Reader, Teacher's Guide with PDF CD, and eReader software is available in a
money-saving Connections in the Workplace Package.
**Attainment's Health Advocacy Program Holburn, Steve / Cea, Christine D. / 585 .230 ATT
The Health Advocacy Program (HAP) is an activity-based curriculum to teach adolescents and adults with
developmental disabilities how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Twenty lessons, each approximately one hour in
length, provide basic information for improving nutritional health and physical and emotional well-being. The
curriculum emphasizes healthy eating, but it also includes lessons on exercise, relationships, sexuality, stress,
high blood pressure, diabetes and depression. The ultimate goal of HAP is to teach participants how to be their
own health advocates.
HAP lessons are objective-based, with step-by-step instructions, including teacher scripts. Copies of illustrated
concept pages and student handouts can be printed out from the provided PDF. Also includes a staff training
DVD showing HAP in action.
Attainment's Life Skill Readers
Booth, Craig / Kinney, Judi
675 .290 ATT
Life Skill Readers is the perfect photo-illustrated book for the older student who is reading at a second grade level
or lower. The reading comprehension program features life skill themes that can be printed from the PDF on CD
or photocopied. Six different life areas are presented: Personal, Transportation, School, Signs and Work.
Colorful photos and engaging stories make this book easy to use and each story has study questions included.
There are 40 stories within the 290 pages, with 3, 5 or 7 pages in each and activities for each of the 6 areas. Buy
each student their own book to enjoy and explore!
Includes a Win/Mac CD with printable PDF, 2005. Also Available as a money-saving set of five books with one
CD
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