Made For Me Literacy Lesson Plans For a Month

Looking to make waves in your early childhood or special education classroom? Say hello to the Under the Sea unit from Made For Me Literacy Level A—a full month of hands-on, low-prep learning designed to help early learners thrive.

We’re talking 4 weeks of cross-curricular fun that blends literacy, math, and science in a way that’s engaging, manageable, and meaningful. This ocean-themed unit was made for Pre-K, Early Childhood, and special education teachers who want everything planned out—without losing the magic of learning through play.

Books:

To help immerse students in various forms of literature, our units contain a variety of texts. We write some of the books ourselves, while others will need to be purchased, found at the library, or found digitally as an online read-aloud.

• “Under The Sea” by Made For Me Literacy (Included)
• “My Ocean Is Blue” by Darren Lebeuf
• “There Was An Old Mermaid Who Swallowed A Shark” by Lucille Colandro
• “Five Little Fish” song flipbook by Made For Me Literacy (Included)

Weekly Themes:

• Vocabulary
• Colors Of The Ocean
• Sharks And Mermaids
• Under The Sea

Activities:

• Anchor Charts: Vocabulary, Colors Of The Ocean, Land Or Water Animal Sort, Sorting Seashells
• Easy Art Craft: Octopus, Crab, Shark, Clownfish
• Predictable Charts: Under The Sea, Colors Of The Ocean, Favorite Ocean Animal, At The Beach
• Process Art: Starfish Sponge Painting, Paper Plate Jellyfish, Sea Crowns, Puffy Paint Sea Scene
• Visual Recipes: Fruit Octopus, Frozen Ocean Animals, Mermaid Punch, Sea Foam Soap

Centers:

• File Folders: Ocean Puzzles, Land Or Water, Beginning Sounds, Word Problems
• Flip & Write Book: Under The Sea
• Interactive Book: Ocean Colors
• Match Mat: I Can Count
• Put-It-In Task: Where Does It Live?
• Task Boxes: Vocabulary, Colors Of The Ocean, Sight Words, Ocean Writing
• Digital Centers: Vocabulary, How Many? Colors Of The Ocean, Land Or Water, Beginning Sounds, Word Problems, Sight Words, Simple Sentences

Skill Practice:

• Vocabulary: key terms from the unit 
• Vocabulary Match: tracing/drawing lines
• School Supply Patterns: extending AB patterns
• Patterns: coloring/extending AB patterns
• I Can Read Sentences: extending simple sentences
• Number Match: identifying numerals to 10
• What’s the Number: matching number to number
• Color It: coloring pictures by written color word
• Color by Shape: coloring shapes by colors
• Expected & Unexpected Behaviors: identifying behaviors
• Teddy Bear Count: counting to 10
• Count the Supplies: counting to 10
• I Can Match Shapes: matching shapes
• What’s the Shape: matching shapes
• Backpack & Lunchbox: identifying items by where they belong
• Which One is Different?: identifying items that are different from the others
• Find the Different One: identifying items that are different from the others
• Match the Letters: matching uppercase letters
• Letter Trace: tracing uppercase letters
• Field Trip Tracing: tracing various lines

Also Included:

• Curriculum map with activities scheduled by week and by day.
• Boom Cards with Access Links
• Bulletin Board
• Digital Anchors
• Parent Letters
• Errorless Back To School Centers
• Question Of The Day Bonus File
• Back To School Vocabulary
• Adapted pieces for books
• Story Maps
• Digital and printable interactive comprehension practice