Practicing everyday community, work, home, recreation, and personal safety skills

Awareness, understanding and practice help reduce accidents while keeping adolescents and young adults safe in the home, community and work environment. Acclaimed author Tom Kinney and well-known artist Gabe Eltaeb, examine safety issues in a variety of settings. Using colorfully animated illustrations and straight forward text, students learn to be alert to potential dangers and to take the necessary precautions to keep themselves safe. Each of the 26 topics safety topics covered includes an activity page with vocabulary words from the stories and multiple choice comprehension questions. Written at a second grade reading level, challenged readers find the content relevant and easy to follow. Merging safety skill instruction with reading comprehension provides a practical format that corresponds to that being taught in transition classes everywhere.

Special educators are provided with guidance for aligning to standards and IEP objectives and benchmarks.

Story titles include:
• Pedestrian Safety
• Passenger Safety
• Bicycle Safety
• Getting Lost
• Work Safety
• Fire Safety
• Bathroom Safety
• Medicine Cabinet Safety
• Kitchen/Dinning Room Safety
• Mealtime
• Putting Food Away/Doing Dishes
• Doing Dishes by Hand
• Dishwasher Safety
• Clothes Washer/Dryer Safety
• Garbage Disposal Safety
• ...Plus more

Covered spiralbound book, 162 pages., includes a PDF on Win/Mac CD with a classroom license for printouts, 2008.

Also available as a money-saving set with five books and one CD. (See Choose Options... below).