Making the Link: Helping School Children Link School Habits with the World of Work, Grade 2-5

This book provides lessons and activities that you can use to help children make connections between important school-success skills and the world of work. The activities in each chapter focus on skills needed to improve school success. Then, children learn how these same skills will help them in their future careers.

This resource contains fresh child-friendly lessons, activities and reproducible student worksheets that are aligned with competencies within the career and academic domains of the ASCA National Model. In addition, this book contains original short stories, poems, role-plays, career day suggestions, and a reproducible game board. This game provides a fun, meaningful review of all the skills addressed in this book.

Topics include:

Responsibility
Time Management
Goal Setting
Listening Skills
Learning from Mistakes
Learning Styles
Career Awareness
Test Taking Skills