Description

The Life Skills Literacy series helps those transitioning from the classroom to the real world, including special needs students, adult literacy students, corrections students, ESL learners, and high school students in life skills classes.  Each title contains 24 easy-to-read lessons and includes teaching suggestions, fascinating facts, word lists, reviews, Internet resources, and LEP suggestions.

Topics in Things to Know About Housing include:

• Special Housing
• Shared Housing
• Looking for Housing
• Using Ads
• Renting an Apartment
• Start-up Costs
• Continuing Costs
• Furnishing a Home
• Rent-to-Own Furnishings
• Roommates
• Safe Housing
• Housing Maintenance
• Using Agents
• Paying for Housing
• Buying a House
• Phones/Phoning
• Major Building Projects
• Rights to Safe, Quiet, Private Housing