A progressive life-skills curriculum designed to teach students how to identify, categorize, and sort grocery items. Starts with kitchen storage sorting (fridge, freezer, pantry) and advances to sorting by major retail grocery store departments.
A comprehensive, highly visual curriculum sequence designed to prepare high school special needs students for employment. It covers critical social-emotional and practical work skills, starting with the job interview process and continuing with key on-the-job expectations, workplace etiquette, and self-advocacy.
A vocational life skills bagging activity where students learn how to group items into paper grocery bags based on food safety, weight, and temperature rules. Features bagging mats, scenario task cards, and a visual anchor chart.
A 3-page vocational sorting set for Grocery Bagging. Page 1 features a dual-basket decision mat (YES - Safe to Bag vs. NO - Do Not Bag). Pages 2-3 feature 16 realistic visual scenario cards to test student knowledge of weight, temperature, raw meat, and chemical safety rules.
A sequential social skills program designed for 5th-grade students with NVLD. Focuses on bidirectional nonverbal cue decoding, eye gaze alignment, conversation turn-taking, and self-monitoring strategies.
An advanced vocational life skills activity where students learn to sort 48 unique grocery store items into six major retail departments: Produce, Bakery, Dairy, Meat & Deli, Frozen Foods, and Household & Hygiene.
Four high-contrast, visual grocery bag sorting mats. Representing Chilled & Frozen Bag, Heavy & Dry Staples Bag, Soft & Fragile Bag, and Household & Soap Bag. Designed as a 4-page printable task box set.
A structured reading comprehension sequence designed for students with autism to practice identifying the main idea and supporting details using highly recognizable farm animals like cows, pigs, and chickens. Each lesson focuses on a single animal to keep cognitive load low and handwriting spaces large.
A functional life skills sorting activity where students categorize food items into the refrigerator, freezer, or pantry. Features high-contrast sorting mats and 30 realistic labeled food cards for hands-on learning.
A visual step-by-step grocery bagging anchor chart. Outlines the 4 golden rules of bagging: heavy on the bottom/fragile on top, separate chemicals from food, bag raw meat alone, and group cold/frozen items together.
A five-part executive functioning sequence designed for middle schoolers to master foundational vocabulary, physical workspace organization, digital file hierarchies, afternoon time management, and project backward planning. Students self-assess, solve common organization dilemmas, and design concrete systems for schoolwork, lockers, and digital files.
A highly structured science CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) lesson tailored for students with writing-related 504 plans, providing visual organizers and sentence frames.
A 6-page printable document featuring 48 unique "photo-style" labeled grocery store department sorting cards. Organized into Produce, Bakery, Dairy, Meat & Deli, Frozen Foods, and Household & Hygiene (8 cards per department). Category clues and answers are completely removed from tags, footers, and descriptions for rigorous sorting practice.
