Reading Level: 4.0 | Grades: 9 to 12, ELL | Lexile: HL650L to HL810L
The Life Skills Handbooks series covers ten practical, real-world topics teens need before they're on their own, including Managing Money, Moving Out on Your Own, Workplace Readiness, Health and Wellness, and Car and Driver. Each 120-page handbook reads more like a magazine than a textbook, using realistic scenarios, tables, graphs, and charts to make the content approachable rather than overwhelming, while building essential real-world vocabulary along the way. A Sample Set covering the full series is also available for classrooms and libraries building out the collection at once.
If your students need career-specific guidance to go with these everyday life skills, check out CTE Journeys Handbooks, which guide grades 9-12 students through 16 career pathways, exploring the rewards, challenges, and skills needed in fields from healthcare to construction to information technology.
For students who need practice generalizing these skills through story, Life Skills in Action pairs a nonfiction lesson with a matching fiction story in every 5-book set, covering independent-living topics like managing money and finding a job, at a more foundational reading level (1.0-1.5, Lexile 150-250).
