Life Skills Winter Clothes Shopping - Functional Math & Reading - Special Ed

Engage your life skills students quickly and easily in real-world lessons for functional academics with these worksheets and task cards modeled after real-world shopping experiences for winter clothes.  Perfect for students in elementary school or life skills classrooms working on a variety of functional reading and math skills.

Ready in no time, these worksheets and task cards can be printed or used online with little prep time from the teacher.  The materials are Easel-ready so they can be used online or with a project for group projects. So, from download to student desks in minutes, it's ready to use.

Plus, differentiation is already done for you.

✅ Students can use worksheets with and without word banks.

✅ Use the task cards with and without picture cues. 

✅ Choose one of 3 versions of the Winter Clothes Store flyer with varying difficulty of prices. All the worksheets and task cards work with both stores. 

WHO’S IT FOR?

• Elementary students learning how to use money for purchases
• Students learning life skills across the age-span for functional reading
• Anyone who will benefit from using real-world materials to practice functional math and reading skills

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

✅ Sales Flyers: Choose from 3 differentiated Winter Clothes Store flyers that are identical but have varied prices in whole dollars, 25 cent increments, and more complex change. 

 ✅ Shopping Task Cards: There are 24 task cards. All the task cards can be used with any of the differentiated flyers. Task cards are differentiated and include:

• 8 cards with a picture cue requiring writing the price of a single item from a flyer
• 8 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 store flyer There are 2 versions of each worksheet-one with a word bank and one without. 
• 5 functional math 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 functional math 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 functional math 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...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A must have for a shopping unit. Differentiated skills to work on are included. Thank you!  -Amy H.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great activity for my vocational class that combines ELA and math! - -Megan M.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sometimes you just need to hop on over to teachers pay teachers to find a math activity that is fun and engaging.  This product fit the bill.  My kids are enjoying the lessons and love the check writing.  Thank you!  -Terri B.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Love this whole unit for giving my high school life skills students online practice shopping, identifying and comparing prices. -Cynthia C.

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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