This comprehensive curriculum includes two books: Getting Real Program and Getting Real with Reading. They focus on teaching academic skills to students with cognitive disabilities, seventh grade to adult.
emphasizes functional math and language arts. Math concepts include
counting, paying bills, telling time, following a calendar and using a
calculator. Language Arts activities cover writing, functional words
and telephone skills. The pretest, instruction and post-test sequence
is ideal for IEPs.
Getting Real with Reading
features lessons for 36 weeks. This structured system stresses
repetitive practice, group reading and survival word instruction.
Includes two spiralbound books, 2006, with PDFs on Win/Mac CDs.
Books also available separately (follow links above). Also available separately is Getting Real Manipulatives.