Functional Sight Words Grocery Food | Real Photos Life Skills | SLP SPED Autism

Functional Sight Words Matching Mats: Grocery & Food Words | Real Photos for Life Skills, Grocery Shopping & Transition Programs

An engaging functional sight words resource for special education, autism, life skills, and transition classrooms — featuring 10 matching mats focused on grocery and food vocabulary with REAL PHOTOS throughout! This versatile set teaches students to recognize functional sight words they'll encounter at the grocery store and on food packaging — building independence, community participation, and functional reading skills.

With TWO levels of matching built in (Level 1 with visual support, Level 2 with words only), this resource grows with your students and serves a wide range of reading abilities.

★ Perfect for: Special Education Teachers, Autism Classrooms, Self-Contained Classrooms, Life Skills Classes, Transition Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Reading Intervention, Community-Based Instruction (CBI), Paraprofessionals, ABA Therapists, ELL/ESL Teachers, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, and Transition Programs

What's Included:

• 10 Matching Mats focused on grocery and food words
• REAL PHOTOS throughout for authentic visual support
• TWO levels of differentiation:
  • Level 1: Word + visual support (for emerging readers)
  • Level 2: Words only (for more advanced readers)

• Multi-format assembly options — matching mats, binder, file folder game, or cookie sheet activity!

Skills Targeted:

• Functional sight word recognition
• Grocery store vocabulary
• Food vocabulary
• Functional reading for independence
• Sight word matching (word-to-picture and word-to-word)
• Visual discrimination
• Receptive and expressive language
• Following directions
• Independent work skills
• Real-world application for transition and CBI
• Grocery shopping skills
• Community participation skills

How to Use This Functional Sight Words Set:

This resource is incredibly versatile — assemble in multiple formats based on your classroom setup:

• Use as-is (printable matching mats)
• Binder format (assemble into a binder for portable use)
• File folder game (glue inside file folders for center use)
• Cookie sheet activity (use with magnets for hands-on engagement)

Students match the correct functional sight word to each real photo. Use the leveled options to differentiate for individual students.

Ways to Use:

• Life skills curriculum instruction
• Functional reading lessons
• Transition program activities
• Grocery store CBI pre-teaching (before community grocery trips!)
• Community-based instruction (CBI)
• Independent work systems
• Centers and learning stations
• Small group instruction
• 1:1 teaching sessions
• Speech therapy (functional vocabulary, food vocabulary, sight words!)
• ELL/ESL functional vocabulary instruction (food vocabulary!)
• Reading intervention with real-world content
• Para-led skill practice