Life skills and special education
Grocery Shopping Life Skills
Next Dollar Up & Budgets · Special Education
- Grades
- Grades 6–12
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 31
- Answer keys
- Included
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Get students ready to shop for groceries on their own! This grocery shopping life skills unit uses a realistic store flyer and 24 shelf price cards from a fictional store, with leveled pages for every learner. Students find items and prices, sort foods by store section, pay with the next-dollar-up strategy, decide "Do I have enough money?", shop within a budget, compare unit prices, read date labels and check a receipt for mistakes.
What's included
- Teacher guide with flexible 8-session pacing, materials and differentiation (support, on level, challenge)
- How to use the levels + 6 sample IEP goals you can adapt
- Standards page (Common Core math + Jump$tart personal finance)
- Store map and 12 grocery words (aisle, produce, dairy, deli, unit price, receipt...)
- Hillside Market weekly flyer with 18 items, sale prices, per-pound prices and multi-buy deals
- 24 shelf price cards drawn with clear pictures (cut apart)
- Store sections sort: sorting mat + 24 picture cards
- Level 1: Find It on the Flyer and Read the Price Card (large print, circle and match answers)
- Level 2: Next Dollar Up and Do I Have Enough Money? (drawn bills, yes/no, change)
- Level 3: Shop Within a Budget and Compare Unit Prices
- Shopping list from a recipe (check the kitchen first, then price the list, then double it)
- Reading date labels (sell by, best if used by, use by) with a real October 2026 calendar
- Package labels & food safety: weight × price per pound and USDA storage times
- Check the Receipt: find the overcharge and practice what to say
- 16 leveled task cards + recording sheet
- My Shopping Trip Planner for community outings
- Grocery Skills Check: an 8-question pre/post assessment
- IEP data tracking sheet with progress graph and skill checklist
- Complete answer keys
How to use it
Use it in life skills, special education, transition or functional math classes. Everyone shops from the same flyer and price cards while working on their own level's page. Use the trip planner before community-based instruction and the Skills Check to collect IEP data. Print and go: just cut the price cards, picture cards and task cards.
Skills practiced
Finding pricesstore sectionsnext dollar upmaking changebudgetingunit pricedate labelschecking receipts
