LIFE SKILLS

Life Skills

An Online Reading Intervention for Special Needs Students Transitioning to Adulthood

Young man with down syndrome reading a book

Life Skills is highly structured, data driven and teacher friendly. Now, even your hardest-to-reach learners can develop: effective communication skills, work habits, job interview skills and self-confidence - all while learning to read!

You'll see immediate results!

  • Improved test scores and grades
  • A positive can-do attitude
  • Immediate changes in oral reading
  • Improved reading comprehension
  • No more classroom disruptions
  • Reduced student anxiety

 

We can teach your overaged non-readers and special needs students how to read and be successful citizens!

WHO IS LIFE SKILLS FOR?

  • Students with Special Needs
  • English Language Learners
  • Students with Behavioral Problems
  • Autistic Students
  • Emotionally Needy
  • Chronically Struggling Non-Readers
  • Cognitively Limited
  • Socially Immature
  • Intellectually Disabled Students
  • Language Limited

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THE LIFE SKILLS PROCESS

The Life Skills Reading Intervention allows teachers to include it in their daily instructional routine for reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension.

STORY PRE-TEST

Test that questions the student on the material they are about to learn so that growth may be measured in the Post-test

LESSON

A plethora of reading exercises such as: Talking Book, Word Recognition, Reinforcement Activities, Drag and Fill, Matching, Scrambled Sentence, Short answer Question and Answer, and a Post Lesson Game

SPELLING PROGRAM

An exercise specifically designed to increase the students spelling ability

VOCABULARY BUILDER

An exercise specifically designed for building the vocabulary of the student

STORY POST-TEST

Final test that is compared with the Pre-test to show the students growth

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Life Skills?

Life Skills is a high-impact, high-intensity, diagnostic/prescriptive/instructional school to career reading intervention to teach chronically struggling readers to improve the vocabulary, expressive fluency, reading comprehension and more.

What makes Life Skills unique?

Life Skills is a complete language / literacy intervention that centers on topics that overaged non-readers and special needs students need to know to be successful citizens. It's important that overaged non-readers have age and developmentally appropriate content to learn with. 

Is this program research-based?

The Life Skills program was developed by national reading researcher, Dr. Joe Lockavitch. Dr. Lockavitch has spent the past thirty years of his life creating fast-acting, research-based reading solutions specifically designed for chronically struggling students. Dr. Lockavitch's methodology is the first to employ the teaching of critical academic vocabulary through connected text that control for the elements crucial to reading success for chronically struggling students: abundant repetition, appropriate sentence structure and meaningful story content. 

Life Skills has been listed as an academic tool by the National Center for Intensive Intervention, was awarded one of the highest scores by the National Center for Response to Intervention, and has been called a "valuable discovery" by the Education Commission of the States.

Does Life Skills include different levels?

Yes! 

  • Level 1: Independent Living - 1st and 2nd grade reading level
  • Level 2: Driver's License - 1st and 2nd grade reading level
  • Level 3: Drug Prevention - 3rd grade reading level
  • Level 4: Employment - 4th and 5th grade reading level
What does each level include?

Each Level Includes:

  • Scripted Teacher Manuals
  • Illustrated Booklets
  • Instructional Readers
  • Criterion Reference Test
  • Talking Software
  • Flash Cards
  • Parent Communication Packet (Employment level only)
  • Independent Activities
What is Video Modeling?

Our software adds the power of video modeling and instruction to reading comprehension and vocabulary instruction. The Life Skills software provides students, parents and educators with a diverse library of online instructional modeling videos and other online multi-sensory reading comprehension and vocabulary resources. Since everything is visual and oral, students don't have to know to to read to learn to read!

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