Essential Skills Practice tied to Getting a Paycheck is part of Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series, offering reading and math essential skills practice for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike studying a life skills program.
 
While Getting a Paycheck offers transition skills for students needing life skills instruction, Essential Skills Practice allows them to work on specific skills needed to attain those transition skills including situation stories about grocery store etiquette, reading practice with environment print in grocery stores, map reading of store layout, and practice reading shelf labels and math skills to determine best prices, price comparison, and savings.
 
Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-three-page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real-world activities are provided whenever possible.
 
Lessons in Daily Living Skills' Getting a Paycheck include:
 
Whose Time is it?
What’s an Emergency?
Taking Breaks
Social Security Cards
Hourly or Salaried?
Overtime
Pay Periods
Gross vs. Net Pay
Deductions
W-4 Forms
Keeping the Job
Bank Accounts
Fiscal Responsibility
Needs vs. Wants
The 50/20/30 Rule
Rainy Day Funds
Cards
Getting Out of Balance
Credit Card Debt
Your Credit Score
Your W-2 Form
Filing Your Taxes
 
Essential Skills Practice includes:
 
Situation stories (Time is Money, Being Professional, Being Reliable, Being Timely)
Vocabulary practice
Counting hours worked
Figuring gross pay (hours worked X hourly pay)
Understanding part-of-an-hour and pay
Reading a pay stub
Categorizing emergencies/non-emergencies
Categorizing positive/negative behaviors
Categorizing dependable/not dependable behavior
 
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book—Doing Laundry.