Developed in partnership with Education Services Australia

Grocery shopping can feel like a chore, but it’s also a great chance to develop your child’s literacy and numeracy skills. Here are a just a few things you can ask your child to do:

• help create a shopping list
  
  What do we need?
  
  What letter does that start with?
  
  How many bok choi do we have left?
• find items in the supermarket
  
  Where do we find the coffee?
  
  Which aisle has the soy sauce?
• read numbers above aisles, on price labels, and on products
• count items and work out how many more you need
  
  These two zucchini are good, but we need six all together. How many more do we need to find?
• compare the sizes and weights of different items
  
  Do you think the peanuts are heavier or lighter than the rice crackers?
• compare prices
  
  How much does the blue packet cost? How much does the red one cost? Which one is cheaper?
• help find the coins you need
  
  We need a twenty-cent piece and a ten-cent piece, can you find them for me? How much does that make?

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