About This Book

This teacher’s guide, when used with the How to Buy Your Own Home student workbook, will help you walk your students through the steps of choosing and buying their own homes. They will learn how to fill out many of the forms they will come across in buying a home. By the time you have turned the last page, your students will better understand how to make their home-buying dream a reality. They will also know much more about the responsibilities and benefits of homeownership. Whether your students are ready to buy soon or see buying a home as a long-term goal, this book will help them plan for the future.

You may use this teacher’s guide in your Adult Basic Education classroom or as part of special classes on homeownership held by a community-based organization in your neighborhood. Or, if you tutor one-on-one, you may use the material for individual instruction. You may want to contact the Fannie Mae Foundation for additional free copies of the teacher’s guide or the student workbook. The teacher’s guide contains many suggestions for additional group and individual activities. Please refer to the Free resources section of this guide for more information about ordering additional materials.

How to Buy Your Own Home provides a general overview of some of the many aspects of buying a home. You will find that there are many more details your students will need to know depending on their individual needs. Real estate agents, attorneys, appraisers, mortgage lenders, and home inspectors are several professionals whose advice might prove useful. Community organizations and other nonprofit groups also provide information and assistance on buying a home.

This teacher’s guide and its companion student workbook were developed as part of the Fannie Mae Foundation’s Targeted Outreach Programs to help underserved communities expand their housing opportunities. The Fannie Mae Foundation is a national private foundation that provides a variety of
information useful to those who want to buy a home. Teaching materials were created with the Center for Applied Linguistics, an educational institution in Washington, DC, with more than 35 years of experience preparing curricula and instructional materials for the classroom.

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