January Print and Go Month 5 SPED Lesson Plans Math Reading Social Skills

About this resource

Four weeks of January, planned. You do not plan on Sunday. You open it to today, print what is behind

the plan page, and teach it.

This is Month 5. It picks up exactly where Month 4 stopped, and it also works on its own: week 1 of each

block re-teaches what it needs before it asks for anything new, so a class that never saw September,

October, November or December can start on Day 1.

Every single lesson has its own printable plan page with a word-for-word script on it. Not a topic, not a

suggestion of what to talk about, but the actual sentences, in quotation marks, that you read out loud. A

substitute or a paraprofessional who has never seen the lesson can pick the page up cold and run it.

WHAT IS INCLUDED: 218 pages

• 60 lesson plan pages. Twenty days, three lessons a day: math, reading, social skills.
• 140 student pages. Math and reading come at three levels every single day. Social skills is one page a day.
• 8 answer key pages covering all twenty days in every block.
• A week divider for each week, a month-at-a-glance map, and a start-up guide.

What Is On A Plan Page

• The objective, written the way an IEP goal is written.
• SAY THIS: the script. Spoken lines are in quotation marks; the lighter italic lines are stage directions

telling you what to hold up or do with your hands.

• What each of the three levels actually gives the student, so you can pick without printing all three to

compare.

• IF A STUDENT IS STUCK: three things you can do in the next ten seconds, at the table, without fetching

anything.

• A data box. Student, correct, out of, date, and how much help: independent, verbal prompt, model, hand

over hand. It is on the plan page rather than a separate data sheet, because a separate data sheet does

not get filled in.

• A notes box at the foot for what you actually saw.
• A TRY IT IN THE ROOM TODAY box on every plan page: one concrete thing to do at line-up, clean-up or snack

that day, so the skill leaves the paper.

How The Three Levels Work

Level 1: errorless. There are exactly as many pieces on the strip as there are boxes, so there is no wrong

piece to pick up.

Level 2: one spare piece on the strip that belongs to nothing. The student has to reject something instead

of matching everything.

Level 3: the supports are gone. No cue, no fading, no printed model, and the items are chosen to be

confusable rather than convenient.

The level is printed on the child's sheet as a color tone and a row of dots and nothing else. No student

page says "Level 1" in words a child reads, so the three levels look the same on the desk and nobody's

paper is obviously the easy one.

What A Student Page Looks Like

Every math page is a jar, a ten-frame, a pair of counted groups or a shape card with the skill on its lid,

and the sets, numbers or shapes inside it — every shape is drawn as flat vector art (circle, square,

triangle, rectangle, hexagon), never a photograph or an emoji. Every reading page is a house or a sentence

strip with the day's sound or sentence on the roof, a picture where a picture honestly applies, and the cut

pieces standing in a column beside it at a size a five-year-old can cut and hold. Social skills pages sort

or order short printed sentences into houses, strips and mats, read aloud before anybody picks up scissors.

The frames are the same ones September through December use, so a student who learned them in an earlier

month does not relearn anything.

Pictures come from two Creative-Commons emoji sets (Noto Emoji in full color, Fluent Emoji High Contrast

in black-line for ink-saving) and from geometry drawn for this store as flat vector shapes; a page never

mixes the two emoji styles, and a shape is never an emoji. Every page copies cleanly in grayscale, and the

print is clear and child-friendly throughout.

The Twenty Days

Math stays inside 10 the whole month and opens skills nothing in the store has taught before: week 1

compares two counted groups (more, fewer or the same, without subtracting to find a difference) using the

same counted-set pictures November and December already proved; week 2 asks the same comparing skill

in words instead of a number (glue "same" or "different"); weeks 3 and 4 meet repeating patterns — an AB,

ABC or AAB unit built from December's own five flat shapes, and the student glues the shape that comes

next. Nothing asks about a number past 10, a clock face or a coin — those stay on their own shelves

(Numbers to 20, Skip Counting, Telling Time, Money, Addition to 20).

Reading opens the vowel side of phonics: the silent E that makes a short vowel say its own name, worked

week by week by vowel — long A (week 1), long I (week 2), long O (week 3) — then Fry's fourth decade

of sight words (31-40) plus comprehension that spans two sentences read aloud, including a whole sentence

glued to its picture (week 4). No skill from September, October, November or December returns.

Social skills opens the next ring of the school year: trying something new and practicing instead of

giving up on the first attempt (week 1), keeping personal space in a crowded room (week 2), a calm-body,

calm-voice routine for when something feels hard, told in plain behavior steps with no clinical framing

(week 3), and choosing what to do on an indoor recess or rainy day (week 4).

Format

Print-and-go PDF. Scissors and a glue stick is the entire materials list for the month. Nothing to

laminate, no counters, no cards to cut apart in advance: the student does the cutting, and the cutting is

part of the work.

Who This Is For

Self-contained and resource rooms, early intervention, life skills, and any elementary room with a wide

skill range in it. It is also built to be handed to somebody else: a sub, a new para, a student teacher, or

the person covering your room the week you are out.

A Note On The Social Skills Pages

Every one of January's twenty social days is a short printed sentence with no picture, and every script

tells you to read the cards aloud before anybody picks up scissors. Each of these skills is a behavior —

taking a breath, asking for space, quiet hands with eyes on the speaker — not a nameable object, and a

single generic icon repeated on every card would not tell one skill's card from another's. Reading is

picture-led wherever a picture honestly applies, and math's counted sets reuse the same pictures November

and December already used; January's patterns are drawn shapes, not pictures of objects.

Not A Calendar

Nothing in here is tied to a date. Day 1 is the first day you teach it. If you start partway through the

month, or you skip a day, or the whole thing runs long, it still works.