Shopping Activity for Speech Therapy

I love using this shopping activity for speech therapy sessions with my students. My students get so excited when I pull this out.. And it’s great for working on shopping life skills in a controlled classroom environment.. Then we are able to transfer these skills to when we go out shopping in the community.

In this blog post I’m going to share information about this shopping activity, how you can use it with your students and the benefits. I’ll also give you the link so you can go and download this activity to use with your students too.

Instructions

Print all the pages included.
Laminate the trolley page.
Cut out and laminate the shopping lists.
Cut out and laminate the food items.
Students follow the shopping lists to add the food to their shopping cart.

The Benefits

Below are just some of the benefits of working on shopping lists with your students;

Reading and interpreting text skills.
Vocabulary.
Image recognition skills.
The ability to follow instructions.
Find and identify the items on their shopping list.
The opportunity to enhance comprehension and execution skills.
Decision making as they have to choose the correct items on their shopping list.
The opportunity to learn about nutrition and comparing different food items.
Social skills; hide one of the grocery items and teach students how to request help from a worker to find the item they need.
Students can create their owns hopping lists to give a sense of responsibility and independence.