Real Life Literacy Skills Buffet

All You Can Learn for Only $0.00

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From the Developers…

• For most of the reading passages, there are

audio and video options.• To aid comprehension, you can click on

these options before and/or after reading the

article.

Family

Community Work Computer Literacy

Family Table of Contents

• Alzheimer’s Disease• Poison Proof Your Home• American Lung Association• Children & Alcohol Abuse• Domestic Violence• Healthy Baby• Kid’s Safety• Skin Cancer

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• Beyond the Piggy Bank• Managing Your Money• Home Safety• Let's Recycle• Parenting Skills• Child Safety• Reading and Children• Self-Improvement

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• Handling Pain

• Eye Charts

• Computers and Girls

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Community Table of Contents

• Medical Insurance• AIDS• Attention Deficit Disorder• Preventing Crime• Fire Safety• Stop Carjacking• Walking at Night• Prevent Choking back

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• Your Privacy

• Elder Abuse

• Energy Debate

• Tornado

• Oil Prices

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• How to Be Heard

• Voting

• Treatment Not Jail

• Safe Streets

• Dangers of Dog Mauling

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WorkTable of Contents

• Looking for a Job• The Civil Service• Cover Letter• Being a Team Player• Welfare to Work• Writing a Resume• Job Information• Filling Out a W-4 Form

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• How to Get a Job

• Employment

• Job Information for ESOL

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Computer LiteracyTable of Contents

• Computer Literacy for ESOL

• How to Use a Mouse

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Family

To learn more about Alzheimer’s disease,

click below. When you have finished the

reading, click on any or all of the activates.

Alzheimer's Disease

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Family

To learn how to poison proof your home, click below. You may select any or all of theactivities when you finish your reading.

Poison Proof Your Home

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Family

To learn about lung diseases, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

American Lung Association

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Family

To learn about children and alcohol abuse, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Children and Alcohol Abuse

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Family

To learn about domestic violence, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Domestic Violence

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Family

To learn about having a healthy baby, click

below. When you have finished your reading,

select any or all of the activities

Healthy Baby

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Family

To learn about kids’ safety, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Kids' Safety

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Family

To learn about skin cancer, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Skin Cancer

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FAMILYManage Your Money

Want to teach your children about money? Click here ( Beyond the Piggy Bank ) and read about how you can help your children save money. Then make a chart for your children so they can keep track of the money they are saving each week.

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FAMILYManage Your Money

Are you in debt? If so, click here (http://www.newhomemaker.com/money/means1.html) and read “Living Below Your Means.” Follow the advise of writing down every penny you spend. Then, list several ways you can save money.

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FAMILY Manage Your Money

Grocery bills too high? Click here

(http://www.newhomemaker.com/money/smartshop.html) to read about how you can save money at the grocery store. Then write a small paragraph about the kinds of products your typically buy at the store. Then add some ways you can save money at the store.

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FAMILYHome Safety/Toxic Products

Is your home safe? Click here (www.epa.gov/opptintr/kids/hometour) to read about toxic products and pesticides in the home. Define the following words: pesticide, toxic, chemicals. After taking a house tour to learn about the chemicals in your home, take the quiz.

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FAMILY Home Safety/Recycle

Let’s recycle! Click here (www.epa.gov/recyclecity/) and visit the recycle city. Harlin Hazzard of the Recycle City Hazardous Waste Center wants to hire you as his assistance. Before you are hired, you must name the four characteristics that make hazardous waste hazardous. Then, list some of the items in your home you can recycle.

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FAMILY Parenting Skills

Do you need help with your children? Do you have questions about your child’s eating habits, daycare, toy safety? Click here (www.parentsoup.com) and read about these topics. Make a list of nutritional foods you can give your children.

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FAMILY Child Safety

Click here for another site to help you keep your children safe (http://www.macombliteracy.org/ameritech/AMLI-adult7-2000onmyown.html). Try this site too for some more safety tips and activities (http://www.macombliteracy.org/ameritech/adultnewreaders2.htm). back

FAMILYReading and Children

Reading to your children is an important activity. Click on Read To Me for tips to improving your child’s reading and a list of good books to start a reading program (Macomb Literacy Partners).

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FAMILYSelf-improvement

Are you interested in helping yourself? Click here (http://www.lessons4living.com/lessons_for_living.htm) to find information about motivation, reactions, and more lessons for living.

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Family

To learn about kids’ safety, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Kids' Safety

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Family

To learn about how to handle pain, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Handling Pain

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Family

To learn about eye charts, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Eye Charts

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Family

To learn about computers and girls, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Computers and Girls

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Community

Click below to read about medical insurance. When you have finished the reading, click on any or all of the activities.

Medical Insurance

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Community

To learn more about AIDS, click below.When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

AIDS

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Community

To learn more about Attention Deficit Disorder, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Attention Deficit Disorder

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Community

To learn more preventing crime, click below.When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Preventing Crime

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Community

To learn more about fire safety, click below.When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Fire Safety

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Community

To learn how to stop carjacking, click below.When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Stop Carjacking

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Community

To learn more about walking at night, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Walking at Night

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Community

To learn how to prevent choking, click below.When you have finished your reading, select Any or all of the activities.

Prevent Choking

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Community

To learn how to protect your privacy, clickbelow. When you have finished your reading,select any or all of the activities.

Privacy

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To learn more about elder abuse, click below. When you have finished your reading,select any or all of the activities.

Elder Abuse

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Community

To learn more about the energy debate, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Energy Debate

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To learn more about tornados, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Tornado

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Community

To learn more about the price of oil, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Oil Prices

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Community

To learn more about how to be heard, click below. When you have finished your reading,select any or all of the activities.

How to Be Heard

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Community

Click below to read about voting. When youhave finished click on any or all of the activities.

Voting

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Community

To learn more about treatment not time, click below. When you have finished your reading,select any or all of the activities.

Treatment Not Time

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Community

To learn more about safe streets, click below.When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Safe Streets

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Community

To learn more about the dangers of dogmauling, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of theactivities.

Dog Mauling

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Work

Click here to read about looking for work. When you have finished reading, click on any or all of the activities.

Looking for a Job

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To learn more about the Civil Service, clock below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

The Civil Service

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To learn about a cover letter, click below.When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Cover Letter

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To learn more about being a team player, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Being a Team Player

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To learn more about from welfare to work, click below. When you have finished yourreading, select any or all of the activities.

Welfare to Work

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To learn more about writing resume, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Writing a Resume

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To learn more about job information, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Job Information

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To learn more about filling out a W-4 form, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Filling Out a W-4 Form

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To learn more about how to get a job, clickbelow When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

How to Get a Job

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To learn more about employment, click below. When you have finished your reading, select any or all of the activities.

Employment

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To learn more about job information forESOL, click below.

Job Information for ESOL

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Computer Literacy

If you are a non native speaker of English,to learn more about the Internet, click below.

Internet for ESOL

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Computer Literacy

To learn more about how to use a mouse,click below.

http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/mouse/page1.html

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