Life Skills Sporting Goods Shopping Math & Functional Reading - Special Ed

Quickly and easily engage your life skills students in real-world lessons for functional academics with these worksheets and task cards modeled after shopping at a sporting goods store.  Perfect for students in elementary school or life skills classrooms working on a variety of functional reading and life skills math skills.

Ready in no time, these life skills activities can be printed with little prep time from the teacher.  Worksheets and task cards can go in page protectors to be used with dry erase markers for easy reuse. So, it's ready to use in minutes, from download to student desks.

Even better, differentiation is already done for you.

✅ Students can use worksheets with and without word banks.

✅ Choose task cards with and without picture cues. 

✅ Choose one of 2 versions of the sporting goods flyer with and without change in the prices. All the worksheets and task cards work with both stores. 

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

✅ Sales Flyers: Choose from 2 differentiated sporting goods store flyers that are identical except for prices. One has prices with no change, and one has prices with change.

 ✅ Shopping Math Task Cards: There are 28 task cards. All the task cards can be used with either of the differentiated flyers. Task cards are differentiated and include:

• 10 cards with a picture cue requiring writing the price of a single item from a flyer
• 10 cards with no picture cue writing the price of a single item from a flyer 
• 8 cards writing a check to make a single-item purchase. 
  

 ✅ Functional Academic Worksheets:

• 2 functional reading worksheets requiring students to answer basic questions about the shopping flier. There are 2 versions of each worksheet-one with a word bank and one without. 
• 5 functional math word problem worksheets with check writing. Students determine the money needed to purchase 2 to 3 items based on the word problem and sales flyers. Then they must write a check for the purchase amount and determine a new balance in the checkbook register. 
• 5 cash functional math word problem worksheets. Students must determine the money needed to purchase 2 to 3 items based on the word problem and flyer. Then they circle the bills that could be used and determine the amount of change that would be received. 
• 1 debit card functional math worksheet. Students are given a debit card balance and asked if they can purchase specific items from the sporting goods 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 was a great purchase! It has many of the skills my students need to work on in one place.---- Susan W.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Wonderful differentiated activities to use in classroom! Can be used with different levels with multiply disabled students as well! Very creative and extension activities and suggestions are very much appreciated! Great resource! - -Pam R.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you for everything that you do to make my job easier? My students keep wanting to go back to this activity.---Melinda J.

Check out more life skills materials in the Structured Work System Bundle: Life Skills Kit and Tasks.

Life Skills Sporting Goods Shopping Math & Functional Reading ©Christine Reeve

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