Life Skills teaches mastery of the critical vocabulary essential for reading success such as: the most common words and critical life skill vocabulary centering on four themes: getting an apartment, getting a driver’s license, getting the facts on drugs and getting a job.
Life Skills is designed to give students with reading abilities as low as 0.0 and cognitive IQs of 35 and higher the chance to read with fluency and comprehension from age appropriate theme and appearance.
Failure Free Reading's Purple Level
Purple Level is for students/children/adolescents/adults reading with a 2nd grade reading level and IQs as low as 35. Purple Level is suitable for: Ages 12-Adults: early reading, beginning English Language Learners, at-risk, and special education populations: autism, learning disabilities, intellectually disabled, deaf/HH and dyslexics.
Life Skills teaches mastery of the critical vocabulary essential for reading success such as: the most common words and critical life skill vocabulary centering on four themes: getting an apartment, getting a driver’s license, getting the facts on drugs and getting a job.
Purple Level is designed to:
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significantly enhance vocabulary, expressive fluency, comprehension and self confidence for the student
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teach mastery of critical 3rd grade academic English words
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teach complex text
When finished, your student/child will have completed
Purple Level helps the Teacher/Parent by providing:
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access to the Purple Level Electronic Library, which includes:
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Scripted Teacher/Parent Manuals for Instruction
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Independent Activities (pencil & paper printable activities)
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Flash Cards
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Complex Text Stories
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Criterion Reference Tests
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Parent Communication Packs
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Writing Composition Activities
Detailed Descriptions of Failure Free Reading’s Five Purple Level Stories:
Life Skills Purple Level – Story 1 - “Things to Watch for on the Road” is the first story from second level of Failure Free Reading’s four Life Skills Levels. This story talks driving a car and the things a driver needs to watch out for on the road while driving. Key words taught in this story are: elderly, daylight, traffic, closely, stopped, vehicle, enough, blind, laws, white, pedestrians, school, bicyclists, emergency, yield, killed. Key phrases taught are: yield the right of way, flashing lights or sirens, drivers must not move, when a school bus stops, pedestrians have been killed.
When finished with Purple Level - Story I - “Things to Watch for on the Road”, your student/child will have completed:
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10 pages, 84 unique words, 164 sentences, and 1200 running words and a lexical density of 7.00
Life Skills Purple Level – Story 2 - “Road Emergencies” is the second story from second level of Failure Free Reading’s four Life Skills Levels. This story talks about the type of emergencies drivers need to watch out for while driving in the car. Key words taught in this story are: passengers, while, tire, disabled, emergency, flashing, control, pedal, skid, direction, accidents, hundred, injury, dollars, curve, carry. Key phrases taught are: should ease up on the gas, when the car starts to slide, get their cars off the road, tell the police about accidents, try to warn.
When finished with Purple Level - Story 2 - “Road Emergencies”, your student/child will have completed:
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10 pages, 84 unique words, 106 sentences, and 898 running words and a lexical density of 9.68
Life Skills Purple Level – Story 3 - “Bad Weather” is the third story from the second level of Failure Free Reading’s four Life Skills Levels. This story talks about the dangers caused when driving in bad weather. Key words taught in this story are: weather, prevent, glasses, watch, lights, down, foggy, dangerous, ahead, caution, engine, storm, overpasses, following, ahead, freeze, started, following, first. Key phrases taught are: turn on their low beams, must watch the tail lights of cars, roads become slick, oil and dust, are most dangerous, should be careful, poor driving conditions, poor driving conditions.
When finished with Purple Level - Story 3 - “Bad Weather”, your student/child will have completed:
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10 pages, 94 unique words, 110 sentences, and 996 running words and a lexical density of 9.43
Life Skills Purple Level – Story 4 - “Car Accidents” is the fourth story from the second level of Failure Free Reading’s four Life Skills Levels. This story talks about the causes of car accidents such as falling asleep, not concentrating while driving or taking drugs and alcohol. Key words taught in this story are: chance, accident, injured, avoid, mistakes, defensively, physical, health, fatigue, emotions, medicine, affect, crashes, upset, excited, rude, performance, doctor, performance, wheel, drug, society, quickly, traffic, deaths, leading, children, alcohol. Key phrases taught are: one in three chance, avoid the mistakes, driving defensively, good physical and mental health, asleep at the wheel, concentrate on driving, Medicine and drugs, widely used drug, a drug that acts quickly, taken away from them, the leading cause of death.
When finished with Purple Level - Story 4 - “Car Accidents”, your student/child will have completed:
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10 pages, 99 unique words, 132 sentences, and 1146 running words and a lexical density of 8.63
Life Skills Purple Level – Story 5 - “Night Driving” is the fifth and final story from the Purple Level of Failure Free Reading’s four Life Skills Levels. This story talks about the dangers associated with driving at night including the rise of drunken drivers, being blinded by oncoming headlights and difficulty seeing at night. Key words taught in this story are: dangerous, drinkers, people, because, tired, alert, blinded, oncoming, headlights, headlights, pull, low, beam, behind, night, high, when. Key phrases taught are: may be blinded, pull off the road, on the open road, do not see well, driving is dangerous, oncoming headlights.
When finished with Purple Level - Story 5 - “Night Driving”, your student/child will have completed:
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10 pages, 52 unique words, 96 sentences, and 743 running words and a lexical density of 7.13
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