October Print and Go Month 2 SPED Lesson Plans Math Reading Social Skills

About this resource

Four weeks of October, 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 2. It picks up exactly where Month 1 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 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 - 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 all three blocks.
• A week divider for each week, a month-at-a-glance map, and a two-page 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 gray 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.

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 three pages look the same on the desk. Nobody's paper is obviously the easy one.

The Twenty Days

Math opens on taking away, which is the piece that most often gets skipped in a year that runs out of time. Week 1 is take-away with pictures, and every page prints the amount to take away, so the child is doing subtraction and not just counting what is left. Week 2 is two parts make a whole, the missing part, and bonds for ten, with the whole printed on the page. Week 3 is teen numbers as a ten and some more. Week 4 is comparing, ordering and taking away to 20.

Reading finishes the five vowels in week 1, then turns them into word families in week 2 - the first point at which a child reads by pattern instead of sounding out every letter. Week 3 reads single words, including the first ten sight words. Week 4 reads and builds whole sentences, with a picture beside each one so the child knows which sentence to build.

Social skills takes the four that need September's routines underneath them: getting your own materials ready and finishing what you start; what to do when something goes wrong, from a broken pencil to a friend who is hurt; being safe in the hallway and the yard where no adult is at your elbow; and holding an actual back-and-forth conversation. Every social lesson also has a TRY IT IN THE ROOM TODAY box: one concrete thing to do at line-up or clean-up that day, so the skill leaves the paper.

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. Black-line art with color only on the banners, so a grayscale copy works exactly as well as a color one.

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

The cards on the social skills sorting pages are short printed sentences, not pictures, and every script tells you to read them aloud before anybody picks up scissors. That is on purpose. The lessons are about people, events and decisions - a big problem or a little one, on topic or off - and a decorative icon that does not name the sentence hands a non-reader a shape cue instead of a skill. Two days whose cards name real objects (pencil, book, glue; swing, slide) carry a picture on every card. The math and reading student pages are picture-led throughout.

Not A Calendar

Nothing in here is tied to a date. Day 1 is the first day you teach it. If you start on the 8th, or you skip a Friday, or the whole thing takes you six weeks, it still works.