Learning for Life

Merry Publications 'Life' Books

A series of reading books and workbooks from Kim Merry, on social topics for pupils with learning difficulties, including autism. These books are teaching aids for both the speech and language professional, schools and parents.

The reading books are mostly 20 page booklets with an illustration and a single line of symbolised text. Each book is supported with an activity book.
Activity Books are 40 page booklets with a range of activities:

Recall of story using Symbol Story Cards
Reading with just one symbol to summarise
Matching and logic with sentence completion
Vocabulary
Matching words to symbols
Some copying and spelling skills
Odd one out activities
Sorting Vocabulary

'Life Books' are also designed to increase the students' confidence and enjoyment of reading.

What's in each pack
How to use the packs

Downloads

Pack Name	Price	Size
Questions for Life 1 – People	£10.00	4.48MB
Questions for Life 2 – Animals	£10.00	4MB
Questions for Life 3 – Actions	£10.00	4.5MB
Questions for Life 4 – Objects	£10.00	3.3MB
Questions for Life 5 - Food and Drink	£10.00	3.8MB
Questions for Life 6 - Time and Place	£10.00	4.7MB
Indoor Occupations	£10.00	1.4MB
Outdoor Occupations	£10.00	1.5MB
Men, Women and Babies	£10.00	1.4MB
True Life Stories	£10.00	13MB
ORDER ALL TEN TITLES ON CD download the widgit resources order form	£79.00

Pack Name	Price	Size
Questions for Life 1 – People	£19.00	9MB
Questions for Life 2 – Animals	£19.00	10.5MB
Questions for Life 3 – Actions	£19.00	7.4MB
Questions for Life 4 – Objects	£19.00	7.5MB
Questions for Life 5 - Food and Drink	£19.00	8.6MB
Questions for Life 6 - Time and Place	£19.00	7.5MB
Indoor Occupations	£19.00	6.4MB
Outdoor Occupations	£19.00	6.6MB
Men, Women and Babies	£19.00	7.3MB
True Life Stories	£19.00	7.4MB
ORDER ALL TEN TITLES ON CD download the widgit resources order form	£152.00

Download it for use in Communicate: In Print 2, including all the additional graphics so that you can tailor the materials to suit your group and make your own materials.
You need 'Communicate: In Print 2' installed to able to use this resource

Download the packs as PDF Files. These do not require symbol software, but you will not be able to edit the activities.
You do not need any Widgit software to be able to use this resource

There are 10 packs, each with 5 stories and 5 workbooks:
6 sets of Questions for Life, Indoor Occupations and Outdoor occupations, Sex and Love and True Life Crime Stories.

Questions for life 1 – People
· How are you?
· What does the girl have?
· What work do you do?
· Who is in the car?
· Who is in the park?

Questions for life 2 – Animals
· What animals do you have?
· What animals do you like?
· What are you?
· What can you see?
· Why is the man scared?

Questions for life 3 – Actions
· What are you doing?
· What do you do at night?
· What do you do in the morning?
· What does the man like doing?
· What don’t you like doing?

Questions for Life 4 – Objects
· How many presents does Sue have?
· What colour do you like?
· What is in the box?
· What is the lady buying?
· What work do you like?

Questions for life 5 - Food and Drink
· What are the boys buying?
· What are you drinking?
· What are you eating?
· What do you want?
· What food don’t you like?

Questions for Life 6 - Time and Place
· How do you go home?
· How is the weather?
· When are you going?
· Where is the boy?
· Where is the dog?

Indoor Occupations
· Working as a plumber
· Working in a café
· Working in a clothes shop
· Working in a fish & chip shop
· Working in an office

Outdoor Occupations
· Working as a builder
· Working as a bus driver
· Working as a gardener
· Working as a market trader
· Working as a postman

Men, Women and Babies
· Having a baby
· Looking after a baby
· Looking at love
· Men and Women
· Pregnancy

True Life Stories – a humorous view of some silly crime stories
· Burglar Does a Maths Test
· Burglar Runs
· Burglar Sleeps on the Job
· Cleaner Hoovers Money
· Man in a Wheelchair

Questions for Life books illustrated by Susan Orange
True Live Stories illustrations by Christina Frost

Books published by and copyright of Merry Publications,
Pineglyn, Orange Tree Hill, Havering-Atte-Bower,
Essex, RM4 1PB. Website: merrypublications.com
Using Widgit Literacy Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2007

Information

Important Notice

All Widgit resources whether bought or free of charge are protected by copyright. The symbols are copyright Widgit Software or Mayer Johnson LLC and the content of the materials is copyright Widgit Software unless otherwise specified.

You may not under any circumstances distribute these to any third parties, they are for your own use. Distribution of materials is illegal.

Printing the materials from Communicate: In Print 2

The Communicate: In Print 2 set of files are installed into the Communicate files/In Print Writing folder, in Widgit Resources.

As well as using the materials as supplied, they can be modified or adapted for individual needs, for example by adding or removing symbols to give the most appropriate level of individual support.

You can choose to print these activities in either colour or black and white.

Communicate: In Print gives you the option to print either as single sheets or as books ready to staple and fold. You can also choose to print double sided. You can print them in A4 or A5, and can choose to have the symbols in colour or black and white.

Printing the PDF Files

The PDF version of this pack cannot be configured for individual use, but do not require specific software, other than Acrobat Reader.

The A5 booklets need to be printed and then cut in half to make the small books. They have been paginated so that you can print them double sided. Alternatively sort the pages into numerical order before stapling.

These files can be printed directly from Acrobat Reader. You do not need any of the Widgit Products to access these files, but you will need to have Adobe Acrobat installed.