Budgeting Unit for Special Education Managing Money Financial Literacy

Budgeting skills can be so challenging even for the best of us, but imagine if you were living with a disability like autism.

This unit on teaching budgeting skills is meant to help students in a life skills high school setting understand what it means to make and follow a budget.

This unit on budgeting includes 2 versions:

• activities for emerging and non-readers
• activities for advanced readers

The version for emerging readers uses a lot of picture support and symbols rather than actual calculations.

The version for advanced readers uses more calculations.

This way, you should be able to use this same unit for everyone in your class regardless of their learning level.

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Budgeting Unit Includes:

⭐ This unit comes in separate zipped files.

In the zipped folder you will find:

• 11 days of lesson plans
• Emerging reader activities
• Advanced reader activities
• Bingo cards
• Making a Budget (PowerPoint) to use with activities
• Following a Budget (PowerPoint) to use with activities

Budgeting Activities:

• Budgeting vocabulary cards and puzzles
• Sorting ways to make or spend money
• Sorting wants and needs
• Making a Budget Templates
• Following a Budget Templates
• Evaluating Your Budget worksheets
• 2 quizzes (one for the end of each week)

Color and BW versions included

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Much of what I have learned about curriculum development is incorporated into these units. For example, do not be afraid of repetition. It is critical that students with significant disabilities get to experience material over several days to be able to fully assimilate what is being taught. Also, adding visual supports to your printables and class activities helps students be able to pay more attention to the content you are presenting rather than the mechanics of what is expected. Finally, ask questions. Good questions!! Regardless of the material, if we can ask students good questions it will push them to think more deeply than before.