May Print and Go Month 9 SPED Lesson Plans Math Reading Social Skills

About this resource

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

the plan page, and teach it.

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, a start-up guide, and the cover, terms and closing pages.

What Is On A Plan Page

• The objective, in a sentence.
• SAY THIS: the script. Spoken lines are in quotation marks; the smaller handwritten lines are stage directions

telling you what to read aloud or what to do with your hands.

• On the math and reading plan pages, 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: short things you can do right now, at the table.
• 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 "What I noticed today" 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 that day, in the room, so the

skill leaves the paper.

How The Three Levels Work

Level 1: the most support. Three items, and the strip carries two extra pieces that belong to no box, so even

the first page is a real choice of five.

Level 2: four items and 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. Six items (five on three of the reading days: Days 16, 17 and 20), every piece

belongs to a box, and nothing is left over.

The level is marked on the child's sheet by a row of dots, not by a word. No student

page says "Level 1" in words a child reads, so no page announces

itself as the easy one.

What A Student Page Looks Like

Every math page this month is a jar holding short story problems (three, four or six on a page, depending on

the level): a small picture of the noun, the story sentences with their numbers printed right on the page, and

the cut-out number that answers the question.

Every reading page is a house: a roof that names the day's skill and a stack of numbered rows, each with a

box to glue into. Where a picture honestly applies, the row has one. The cut pieces sit in a touching grid beside or

below the house (five or six pieces, every one at least 0.9 in a side) at a size a five-year-old can cut and hold.

Social skills pages put five short printed steps in order, sort six short printed actions into two groups, or match

six short printed situations to what to do. The cards are read aloud together.

Pictures are Noto Emoji (Apache 2.0), credited on the terms page.

Every student page has a name line, one short instruction and large print.

The Twenty Days

Math is a CHANGE story problem every day: one group of the same thing, one change to it, and a question about the

number the story does not say. Week 1 asks how many came (some more joined the group); week 2 asks how many went

away; week 3 asks how many there were at first (some more were added, and the story says how many there are now);

week 4 mixes them (Day 16 mixes came and went; Days 17 to 20 mix all three), so a child has to read the whole

story and not just pick out the numbers. Every number in every story, and every number on the strips, is 20 or

fewer. No story is about time or money.

Reading is the long-I spellings and the OO and UE/EW spellings: IGH, IE and Y words (week 1), the OO of moon, spoon

and broom (week 2), then UE and EW words read inside sentences and questions, reviewed with OO and long I (week 3).

UE and EW have no clear picture to glue, so those days are read-the-sentence-and-answer days rather than

fill-in-the-letters pictures. Week 4 is Fry's eighth ten sight words (two, more, write, go, see on Day 16; number, no, way, could, people on Day 17), a

read-two-short-sentences-then-answer page (Day 18, the question is read aloud), long-I, OO, UE and EW sentences

(Day 19) and a check across the month (Day 20).

Social skills is a ring of four plain behaviors: asking before I borrow something and giving it back (week 1), doing

my part in a group (week 2), behaving at special places at school, the assembly, the library and the lunchroom

(week 3), and telling the truth and owning up (week 4, with a mixed review on Day 19 and a check on all four skills

on Day 20). Every skill is a plain, observable step (I ask, I say thank you, I tell my teacher), never a clinical

framing. Where a place has its own rules, the week 3 try-it box has you say the plan for that place using your school's own rules.

Where This Picks Up

Month 8 covered compare story problems, the long-A and long-O vowel teams (AI, AY, OA and OW), and Fry's seventh ten

sight words. Month 9 starts new threads: change story problems, the long-I spellings and the OO and UE/EW spellings,

and Fry's eighth ten. The format never changes, so a student does not have to relearn how the pages work.

Format

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

laminate and 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 social page has five or six cards to cut out, laid edge to edge in a short grid so each cut is one

straight line. Every one of May's twenty social days is a short printed sentence with no

picture, and the plan pages have you read the cards aloud together. Each of these skills is a behavior, 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. Math's pictures are eight counted-set nouns (apples,

chicks, leaves, turkeys, pies, baskets, eggs, feathers), the same ones the April packet's story problems use.

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.