Description
These easy print-and-go functional math shopping activities are perfect for students working on money skills in elementary or life skills classes. Students will practice functional math and reading skills through a variety of real-world shopping activities.
Differentiated store flyers and differentiated worksheets that include versions with and without word banks and task cards with and without picture cues.
This bundle includes 5 different stores where your students can practice shopping for shoes, hardware, sporting goods, toys, and winter clothes.
Each Life Skills Shopping Activity includes everything you need for a differentiated activity:
✅ Sales Flyers: Each store includes 2 or 3 differentiated shopping flyers that are identical but have varied prices in whole dollars, 25 cent increments, and more complex change.
✅ Shopping Task Cards: There are 24 to 28 task cards for each store. All the task cards can be used with any of the differentiated flyers from the corresponding store and are color-coded to match the store for easy reference. Task cards are differentiated and include:
- Writing the price of a single item from a flyer with a picture cue
- Writing the price of a single item from a flyer with no picture cues
- Writing a check to make a single-item purchase.
✅ Print and Go Worksheets:
- 2 reading worksheets requiring students to answer basic questions about the store flyer There are 2 versions of each worksheet—one with a word bank and one without.
- 5 check writing worksheets requiring students to total the amount needed to purchase 2 to 3 items, write a check for the purchase amount, and determine a new balance in the checkbook register.
- 5 cash purchase worksheets requiring students to total the amount needed to purchase 2 to 3 items, circle the bills that could be used, and determine the amount of change that would be received.
- 1 debit card worksheet where they are given a debit card balance and asked if they can purchase specific items from that store.
✅ Answer keys are included
Put the sales flyers in a page protector, print out the worksheets, and either cut out the task cards for single use or put them in a photo album or laminate for re-use.
What are teachers saying…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This resource is great. The visuals are nice and support instruction. The different activities are helpful in supporting students learning in functional math and reading activities. I like the different storefronts and the multiple stores of the same type to help students compare prices. Overall, I’m extremely happy with this resource.” – Benjamin L.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This has been a great and more motivating way to get in functional reading combined with math skills! I am so excited to have the different packs so it can be the same type of work but to change it up every few weeks with what the kids are working with!” – Rebecca T.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students found this resource engaging and it helped me to meet the need of working on money skills another time with a new resource. They enjoyed the visuals and the predictability of the structure once we started using the materials.” – Erica V.
For other resources appropriate for students working on a life skills or functional curriculum, check out the following:
- Money Tasks Galore Bundle: Task Cards and Worksheets
- Next Dollar Money Skills Bundle for Special Education
- Money Essentials Bundle for Special Education
- Money Task Cards 1: Groceries
- Next Dollar Up Task Cards: Money Skills [Special Education]
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This product is copyrighted to Autism Classroom Resources-Christine Reeve 2019 for use in one classroom. They may not be copied for additional classes without purchasing extra licenses.
