Life Skills Curriculum for Special Education
Category: Education / Special Education
Give teens real-world skills for money, kitchen, jobs, community and safety. 8 units, 500+ printable pages in A4 and US Letter.
Give your students the real-world skills they will use every day: paying at the store, ordering a meal, reading a bus schedule, getting to work on time and staying safe. This life skills curriculum for special education helps middle school, high school and transition students practice functional life skills at their own level, while you track clear progress for IEP goals. It is a complete, print-and-teach program with 8 units and over 500 pages.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
• 3 PDF files in one ZIP:
• Life-Skills-Curriculum-A4.pdf (503 pages)
• Life-Skills-Curriculum-US-Letter.pdf (503 pages)
• PRINT-GUIDE.pdf (which file to use, how to print, words explained)
• Teacher guide: how to use, contents, scope and sequence, prompting and data guide, class progress tracker, certificate
8 UNITS, 9 SKILLS EACH
• Unit 1 Money Skills: Coin names and values, Counting coins, Counting bills, Bills and coins together, Next Dollar strategy, Do I have enough money, Shopping with a budget, Reading a receipt, Comparing prices and making change
• Unit 2 Kitchen Skills: Kitchen tools, Kitchen appliances, Measuring cups and spoons, Adding measures, Kitchen safety, Food groups, Storing food, Reading a food label, Use-by dates
• Unit 3 Restaurant Skills: Restaurant words, Kinds of restaurants, Reading a menu, Menu prices, Ordering a meal, Polite ordering, Paying the cashier, The check and the tip, Restaurant steps
• Unit 4 Home Skills: Rooms of a home, Cleaning tools, The right tool for the job, Laundry items, Sorting laundry, Doing laundry, Dressing for the weather, Reading a weather forecast, Chores
• Unit 5 Community Skills: Safety signs, Information signs, Sign meanings, What should you do, Places in the community, Ways to get around, Reading a bus schedule, Paying the fare, Crossing the street
• Unit 6 Time & Schedules: Time to the hour and half hour, Time to 5 minutes, Analog and digital time, AM and PM, Elapsed time, Reading a schedule, Reading a calendar, Days and months, Being on time
• Unit 7 Job Skills: Job words, Jobs and workplaces, Personal information, Job application, Interview skills, Workplace behavior, Time cards, Earning money, Work schedules
• Unit 8 Safety & Personal Health: Hygiene items, What is it for, How often, Emergency or not, Calling 911, Warning symbols, Personal safety, Feeling sick or hurt, Fire safety
EVERY UNIT HAS
• Unit cover and teacher overview with sample IEP goal ideas
• Vocabulary picture cards
• Pre-test and post-test (10 questions each) with answer keys and a scoring guide
• 36 worksheets: Level A (picture: circle, match, cut and sort, copy from a word bank) and Level B (writing) for every skill
• 32 task cards with a recording sheet
• Full answer key
• Family connection page and a real-world checklist
• 2 teacher data sheets (prompt levels and trial-by-trial scores)
PERFECT FOR
• Special education and life skills classrooms
• Transition programs and post-secondary programs
• Middle school and high school students
• Autism and resource classrooms
• Job coaches, OTs and homeschool families
HOW TO USE
• Give the pre-test and use the scoring guide to choose Level A or Level B
• Teach with the vocabulary cards, then practice with worksheets and task cards
• Practice in real life with the checklist, then give the post-test and record growth
HOW TO PRINT
• Print at Actual size (100%), one-sided
• Regular paper for worksheets; card stock (65-110 lb) for task cards and vocabulary cards
• Laminate cards and reusable pages for dry-erase use
PLEASE NOTE
• This is a digital download. Nothing will be shipped.
• Colors may look a little different on different screens and printers.
• Designed by Printivora: an exclusive design for our shop, built from our own original ideas and prompts, with the help of AI tools.
• Money is in US dollars. Bill pictures are simplified drawings, not copies of real money. Menus, stores and people are made up for practice.
• This curriculum teaches general life skills. It is not medical, legal or financial advice.
• For personal and single-classroom use only.
• Please do not resell, share or redistribute the files.
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