Grocery Hero

A comprehensive, highly visual four-part curriculum designed to teach essential independent living skills in the kitchen. Focused on kitchen safety, correct food storage, safe food preparation techniques, and preventing foodborne illness using simple text, environmental print, and real-world safety signs.

Students practice the social and procedural steps of completing a purchase at a checkout lane.

A scaffolded checkout simulator worksheet with dialogue completion, receipt checking, and a visual routine checklist for student practice.

A visual, sensory-friendly writing mechanics intervention unit for 8th-grade special education students. Offers two distinct evidence-based check-and-editing systems (the Sentence Flow traffic-light framework and the CUPS acronym check) to scaffold writing independence.

Students learn and practice the next-dollar up strategy to pay for items and determine if they have enough money.

Visual social story and scripts for checkout conversations, introducing students to the steps of buying items and interacting with cashiers.

A professional development sequence designed for Special Education Coordinators (SECs) and Case Managers at Camden Prep, focused on clarifying roles, meeting compliance, paraprofessional management, and time/task management.

Students learn to categorize items and navigate the grocery store by major departments using visual cues and signs.

A highly scaffolded practice worksheet where students apply the Next-Dollar Up strategy to determine costs, write out formulas, and color in corresponding dollar bills. Includes clean student response sections.

A 4-week social-emotional learning sequence designed for a transition-age student with significant cognitive and social-emotional disabilities. Focuses on body awareness, concrete physical calming, non-verbal functional communication, and highly simplified problem-solving.

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, 15-day functional math unit focused on money and measurement in the kitchen. Tailored for special education and diverse learners, this unit scaffolds daily measurement, recipe scaling, grocery budgeting, and elapsed time using a warm diner-inspired visual design.