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 Medicine and Health include:

• The Whole Person
• Taking Charge
• Approaches to Health Care
• Balanced Health Care
• Diet and Exercise
• Healthy and Unhealthy Habits
• Finding Good Doctors
• Getting Dental Care
• Health Care to Avoid
• Public Health Clinics
• Medicines
• The Medicine Cabinet
• The Emergency Room
• Common Colds
• Emotional Problems
• Hospitals
• Skin Care
• Challenges That Don’t Go Away
• Health and Babies
• Health and Children
• Health and Youths
• Health and Adults
• Health and the Elderly
• Learning More About Health