These eighteen Survival Skills units are intended to provide the adult basic education student with life skills information, new vocabulary, and reading practice at a readability level of 3.0 to 6.0. It is suggested that they be used only under an instructor's direction and that specialized vocabulary may need to be pre-taught. Each unit is considered an introduction to a life skills topic and not a comprehensive treatment. There are four major areas of survival skills considered with various topics addressed in units within these areas: (1) consumer economics (budgeting, income tax: filing the 1040A, renting an apartment, buying a used car), (2) occupational knowledge (job leads, job applications and interviews, job skills), (3) health (community health services, birth control, parenting skills, first aid, nutrition), and (4) government and law (law, crimes, federal government, state and local government, voting, getting a driver's license). Units contain informative materials, activities and exercises, and sample forms. An instructor's guide containing answer keys to all activities is provided. (YLB)