Voting is from Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering life skills and transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. This workbook serves as both a traditional print version and an interactive version using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. 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.
Because of the intensive vocabulary in politics, this book is written a little higher than the normal third/low fourth grade level for the series and charts in at fifth-grade vocabulary. But, each vocabulary word (precinct, bi-partisan, non-partisan, etc.) is thoroughly defined directly afterword introduction and the overall "feel" of the book matches the rest of the series.
Like the other books, it contains airy pages and bullet-point information for easy, independent study, yet, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated transition and Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills Voting, include
Why Vote?
Does 1 Vote Matter?
Who Can Vote?
How Do I Vote?
How to Register
Voting Precincts
Ways to Vote
How Should I Vote?
2-Party System
What Parties Do
Third Parties
What Am I? (Conservative/Liberal)
Who's With Me?
Becoming Informed
Overcoming Bias
Government Responsibilities (Federal, State and Local)
Becoming Involved
Also included are Parent Verification Letters (to meet federal mandates on family involvement), answer key, and grading sheet.
The Teacher's Manual (sold separately) offers guidance on setting up the program, steps to get started, written ITP goals for each workbook in the series which can be inserted to annual IEP's to meet transition goals, pre- and post-test assessments, class grading sheets, and wording and codes for all national standards addressed by the program creating a comprehensive program to meet transition mandates.