Seasonal Life Skills Worksheet - Omar 4th of July Adventure

Omar and Olivia's Independence Day Journey

In the narrative Omar and Olivia's Independence Day Journey, Omar learns how to manage his anxiety during the 4th of July festivities.

• This engaging and relatable life skills activity focuses on Independence Day celebrations, offering guidance on how to handle anxieties tied to loud fireworks and crowded parades.

• It offers practical strategies for managing sensory sensitivities, such as the recommendation of using noise-cancelling headphones.

• The narrative encourages creating a snug and comfortable environment with a blanket and pillows, ensuring a relaxed and pleasurable fireworks viewing experience.

• The story promotes the use of imagination to transform the fireworks into entertaining and enjoyable visuals, such as enormous sparkling cupcakes or exploding jelly beans.

• The interactive dialogue and thought-provoking questions engage learners and fortify their understanding of the narrative and its principles.

• The use of real-life examples and age-appropriate visual aids, such as illustrations and diagrams, render this narrative-based lesson an exceptional resource for teaching social narratives.

• The straightforward language of this social narrative sets unambiguous guidelines, making it perfectly suited for high school students and adults with intellectual disabilities.

The story includes seven (7) reading comprehension questions and answers to reinforce and measure the student's understanding of the Functional Life Skills contained in the story!

This life skills story will assist high school students, and young adults in developing the necessary independent living skills to become more independent at school, at home, and in their communities.

This story is designed to be used by special education teachers, occupational therapists, speech therapists, ABA therapists, registered behavior technicians (RBT), parents, supported living coaches, and life skills teachers to teach their students valuable life skills.

In addition to interactive instruction, this resource is ideal for hands-on and community-based learning, defining, setting, and measuring IEP goals.

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Engage your special education class with this highly interactive High School Functional Life Skills Story!

It's printable, easy to use, and ready to hand out!

A PDF file with seven (7) pages. Color and black-and-white versions of each page are available for this pdf resource.