Saddleback's Life & Work Ready collection gives striving teen readers three ways to build real-world skills. Life Skills Handbooks read more like magazines than textbooks, pairing practical content with realistic scenarios, charts, and essential vocabulary to teach life skills in an approachable, non-threatening way. Lifeskills In Action offers five-book sets on independent living, covering topics like managing money, finding and keeping a job, and household tasks, with each book pairing a nonfiction side with a fiction side so students can put what they learn into practice. CTE Journeys Handbooks round things out with career-field guides plus the Next Steps: Personal Exploration Guide. All three series are also available together in the Life & Work Ready Bundle.
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Life & Work Ready BundleThe Life & Work Ready Bundle is a sample set that brings together one title from each of the three series: Lifeskills In Action, Life Skills Handbooks, and CTE Journeys Handbooks. Spanning reading levels 1.0 to 4.0 (Lexile HL130L–HL810L) for grades 9 to 12, it's an easy way for a classroom or library to sample a wide range of real-world topics, from independent living and workplace readiness to career exploration, before deciding where to expand. |
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CTE Journeys HandbooksCTE Journeys Handbooks help students navigate their plans for life after high school, with a deep focus on careers that don't require a traditional four-year degree. Each of the 16 handbooks, about 100 pages long, explores the rewards and challenges of a specific field, along with the types of roles, skills, and interests involved, from agriculture and healthcare to information technology and transportation and logistics. Written at a 3.0 reading level (Lexile HL360L–HL560L) for grades 9 to 12, the series gives striving readers a real, practical look at career paths in industries they might actually pursue. |
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Next Steps: Personal Exploration GuideThe Next Steps: Personal Exploration Guide is a consumable, 35-page student workbook that helps students explore their options for choosing a career path, getting training, and preparing for their future. Students identify their own strengths and interests, research local employers, analyze salary information, and map out a budget. It's designed to work alongside the CTE Journeys Handbooks, but it also stands on its own for students planning futures outside of technical careers. Sold in packs of 10 workbooks. |
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Lifeskills In ActionLifeskills In Action delivers five-book sets, each covering a key area of independent living: job skills, living skills, money skills, or soft skills. Developed for students reading at the most basic level, every book is really two books in one, a nonfiction side that teaches the skill and a fiction side that shows teens applying it in a real-world situation. |
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Life Skills HandbooksLeveled paperback collections organized by Lexile range, genre, moral focus, or STEM topic, so teachers can match a set to exactly where their striving readers are reading. |
