Main topics concern following directions, finding your way around, making wise purchases, managing money, and finding, landing, and keeping a job - so the book is stuffed with things like directions for product assembly and operation, maps, advertisements, checkbook registers, and job applications. Students learn to decipher the wide variety of written materials we all encounter in daily life with 60 ready-to-reproduce documents accompanied by reproducible activity sheets. Well-suited for ESL, ELL, and adult education. Answer keys. Illustrated. Grades 6-9. 248 pages.