Real-World Skills Grocery Shopping for Life Skills Classes

Using math and reading in real life settings is essential for life skills students. This set of real-life activities involving the grocery store can help you teach functional literacy and math skills to your students. This set includes differentiated materials to work on from money counting and next dollar up skills to calculating discounts, coupon use, check writing and more real-world skills.  DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW PDF TO SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED Skills this set addresses: Identify relevant information in sales flyers and coupons (e.g., expiration dates, limits of sales), Applying sale discounts and coupon promotions, Knowing the brand to buy that matches the sale, multiplying prices by number of items purchased and adding prices for a total, Writing checks, and Determining if there is enough money to make a purchase Next-dollar strategy Extend Instruction Beyond the Classroom These materials can be used with flyers from your local store. And it includes blank shopping lists, blank chec