This study aimed to investigate the basic content of fourth grade’s Farsi book in teaching life skills. The population consisted of fourth grade’s Farsi book in academic year of 2013-2012. The sample was equal to the population. The research method was descriptive and content analysis. The unit of analysis was sentence. The assessment tool was the life skills categories checklist; its validity was estimated 0.89. The descriptive statistics, table, chart, and percentage were used for analyzing the data. The results indicated that eight life skills were included in fourth grade’s Farsi book: community cognition and social relations training (14.7%), thinking (creative - critical) training (9.9%), the skill of communicating with others (15.7%), the training of value cognition (19.8%), decision making training (1.7%), teaching of coping with emotions and psychological stress (7.1%), teaching the cognition of abilities (5.1%), physical health teaching (5.6%).
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