life skills

Singer Ledisi reflects on her life and career.

A self-help manual for students, offering practical suggestions for becoming better organized.

Explains how the economy works and offers financial advice. Presented in Spanish.

Combines photography and text in an upbeat approach to elementary childhood milestones that encourages young children to practice such independent skills as tying shoes, making beds, and writing letters and numbers.

Practice Good Hygiene! focuses on hygiene skills while discussing steps children can take to practice healthy lifestyles. Readers are introduced to basic body care and why cleanliness is important. Body odor, bad breath, germs, and selfesteem are discussed. Callouts prompt inquiry, further thinking, and close examination of photographs. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

A celebration of the enduring power of love in which a mother shares her own hopes and dreams, and lets her child know that whatever challenges life brings, she encourages the child to follow his heart, hopes, and passions so that his dreams can come true.

A collection of helpful tips for kids for becoming more organized at home and at school.

Provides techniques for dealing with embarrassing, emotional, or frightening situations, including forgetting your lines on stage, being threatened by a bully, or losing your parents in a big city.

Presents a collection of two hundred reproducible activity sheets, discussion questions, applied exercises, and suggestions forteaching social skills to students with special needs in grades six through twelve.