Independent Living Skills: How to Create a Shopping List

In this Special Education life skills activity, high school students create a weekly Grocery Shopping List that includes meats, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, desserts, canned goods, personal care items, and household items.

The use of this Independent Living Skills resource will allow students to engage in the following:

• Creating a budget-based grocery shopping list

• Making a shopping list for all essential items

• When to spend extra money on non-essential groceries

• Here is how to find out how much each item on your shopping list costs

• Making grocery shopping easier with an organized list

• A blank PDF ready-to-use grocery shopping list

There are 16 reading comprehension questions in this Independent Living Skills resource!

This activity will assist high school students in developing the necessary life skills to become more independent at school, at home, and in their communities.

A great place to use this handout is in special education classes or one-to-one settings, such as ABA therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) sessions.

High school students working on independent living would benefit significantly from this activity for defining, setting, and measuring IEP goals.

In addition to interactive instruction, this resource is ideal for hands-on and community-based learning.

Engage your special education class with this highly interactive High School Independent Living Skills Activity!

This activity contains step-by-step instructions, questions, and answers that reinforce learning, age-appropriate graphics, real-world examples, and ideas for implementation.

This is the perfect special education activity for grade 10, grade 11, grade 12, and autism life skill centers.

This special education life skills handout was designed to assist teens and adults with difficulties developing independent living skills.

It's a printable, easy-to-use activity ready to hand out!

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A PDF with 19 unique pages. Color and black-and-white versions of each page are available for this pdf resource.