Life Skills Nutrition and Mealtime Skills - Grocery Shopping

Help your students practice practical grocery shopping skills with this life skills unit for special education. This resource helps students work on real life skills like making a shopping list, finding items in the store, reading prices and labels, staying within a budget, paying for purchases, bagging groceries, and handling common situations that may happen during a shopping trip.

What’s Included

Grocery Shopping Life Skills Unit

• This resource includes adapted books, worksheets, file folders, task cards, social scripts, games, visual supports, real images, and hands-on activities that focus on grocery shopping skills from planning a trip through checkout.

Adapted Books

• Making a Shopping List
• Choosing Good Foods
• Checking Out at the Grocery Store

Assessment and Data

• Pre and post assessment
• Vocabulary quiz
• Skill and probe data sheets
• Teacher observation and anecdotal notes

File Folder Activities

• Bagging Groceries
• Checking Out
• Reading Aisle Signs

Games

• Vocabulary Bingo
• Stay in Budget
• Shop the List
• Grocery Roleplay

Mini Books

• Making a Shopping List
• Finding What I Need at the Grocery Store

Home Connection

• Grocery Shopping Skills home-school connection activity
• At-home grocery shopping skills checklist

Posters and Anchor Charts

• Grocery shopping posters
• Mini anchor charts

Sequencing Activities

• Writing a Shopping List
• Grocery Shopping - 4 Part
• Grocery Shopping - 10 Part
• Buying Produce
• Checkout
• Self-Checkout

Shopping List Activities

• Shopping lists with 3 items - 2 levels
• Shopping lists with 6 items - 2 levels
• Blank shopping list templates
• Grocery item cards

Social Scripts

• Finding an Item
• Asking About a Product
• Paying with a Card
• When I Forget an Item at Checkout
• When the Price Seems Wrong

Task Cards

• Food Sections and Aisles
• Reading Price Tags
• Whole Class Scenario Cards

Task Mats

• Produce
• Dairy
• Bakery
• Meat
• Canned Goods
• Snacks
• Frozen
• Drinks
• Condiments, Sauces and Syrups

Token Boards

• I Made a Shopping List
• I Read the Label Before Buying
• I Found What I Needed at the Store
• I Checked the Price and Stayed on Budget

Vocabulary Cards

• 24 Vocabulary Cards using Clip Art
• 24 Vocabulary Cards using Real Images

Worksheets

• Shopping List - Cut and Paste
• On the List or Not?
• Grocery Trip - Food Condition Sorting
• Shopping Cart or Basket?
• Use-by Date
• Find the Match - Label Matching
• Grocery Budget
• Which is the Better Value?
• Bag the Groceries - Cut and Paste
• Counting Change
• What Happened Here - Scenario
• I Am a Smart Shopper - Writing

Great For

• Grocery shopping skills
• Functional life skills practice
• Functional academics
• Community-based instruction
• Independent living skills
• Transition skills
• Small group instruction
• 1:1 instruction
• Real or simulated grocery store practice

Perfect For

• Autism classrooms
• Special education programs
• Life skills programs
• Functional academics
• Transition programs
• Community-based instruction
• Independent living instruction
• Homeschool life skills

Help your students practice grocery shopping skills in a clear and meaningful way with activities that connect classroom learning to real life shopping routines.

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