GROCERY: Functional Skills Unit for Speech and Language

Keep therapy functional for older students in speech and language! This digital resource includes 145 no-print, no-prep worksheets to support students with grocery-related life skills and scenarios. It is packed with visuals and tools to help your students be successful, including…

• A Grocery Checklist: The skills involved with each grocery shopping task are outlined in this student-friendly, parent-friendly checklist. Great for use during community based instruction and/or classroom activities that involve grocery store prep/money, as well as to send home for collaboration between the parent/guardian and SLP.

• Sequencing Activities: Pages include a visual for checking out with a cashier, as well as a visual for using the self checkout. Steps are scrambled for students to sequence on the accompanying worksheets.

• Photo Vocabulary Pages: These pages include photos accompanying various grocery store terminology (produce, barcode, aisle, etc.).

• Section Guide and List Templates: These pages include a visual for the various sections in a grocery store and guided shopping lists with category headings.

• Photo Identification Pages: These worksheets describe and discuss various products (fruits, vegetables, snacks, dairy, etc.) and accessories (cart, basket, paper bag, etc.) that are found at the grocery store. Each worksheet includes WH questions with visuals on the item’s functions and features (i.e. where do we find it? why do we use it? etc.). Additional practice pages with comprehension questions regarding categories and attributes are also included.

• Hypothetical scenarios: Read short passages or situations and respond to questions in the areas of planning, problem solving, cause and effect, and inferencing.

• Flyer Hunts: use a grocery store flyer to find and describe items based on attribute!

• …plus more!
  

This resource opens up so many possibilities and helps keep therapy FUNCTIONAL! Great for teletherapy OR in-person sessions with middle or high school students working on developing important life skills. The possibilities are endless!