Address Practice | Envelopes, Mailboxes + Forms | Life Skills

Address Practice: Read It, Write It, Find It: a functional reading and math set for high school life skills, special education, and transition programs. The parts of an address, where they go on an envelope, and how to match a name to a place.

Why I made this: Students are asked for an address on job applications, library cards, medical forms, and packages, and a lot of them stall on the second line. An address has the same parts in the same order every time. This set breaks those parts apart, puts them on an envelope, and then has students use them the way adults do: finding a mailbox, a house on a street, or a name on a delivery list.

How it is different from my Job Application Practice Pack: that pack covers the whole application. This set is only the address: its parts, the short forms, where it goes on an envelope, and finding a place or a person from it.

What's included:

• A teacher page: why I made it, how to use both levels, and the skills covered

• Words to know: 10 key words, each with a picture

• 3 pages of practice documents: an addressed envelope with short-form charts, an apartment mailbox panel and a street map with odd and even numbers, and a delivery list with a library card form that has one mistake. All businesses, names, and numbers are made up.

• 12 Level A questions, each with a picture and three answer choices

• The same 12 questions at Level B, with open answers and room to show the math

• A real-life task: address an envelope from a delivery list and fill in an address form

• An answer key that shows where to find each answer

How I use it: Read through the practice documents together, then give each student the level that fits. Both levels ask the same questions, so the whole class can check answers together. I use the real-life task as a wrap-up or right before a community outing.

Skills covered: naming the parts of an address; reading street and state short forms; placing the return address, stamp, and mailing address on an envelope; finding a unit number on a mailbox panel; using odd and even house numbers; matching a name to an address on a list; checking a form for mistakes and filling one in.

Part of the Functional Life Skills series: every set uses the same layout (words, real-looking documents, two levels of the same questions, and a real-life task), so students know the routine when you move to the next set.

Pairs well with:

• Job Application Practice Pack (the address is the first line on every application)

• Community + Workplace Safety Signs Task Cards (more functional reading in the community)

Who it is for: high school life skills and special education classes, transition programs for ages 18 to 21, and adult education. Grades 9 to 12 and adult transition.

What you download: one printable PDF, 11 pages, US Letter. Answer key included.

From the author of The Transition Map (Jeremy D. Gooch), available in paperback and Kindle.

Written by Jeremy D. Gooch, a teacher with 20+ years in education. All businesses, names, and numbers are made up.