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Special Education Lesson Plans for the Entire Month of December

October 6, 2021

Made For Me Literacy has got your December literacy lesson plans completed for the entire month. Yep. Four whole weeks of content!

If you’re new to Made For Me Literacy, you can read more about our program here.

Eight small images in one showing all the different parts for the full month of December lesson plans

4-Week Lesson Plans

We get it. Teachers have so much on their plates. Planning lessons is sometimes the last thing you want to worry about.

We’ve taken all the monthly activities and arranged them in a day-by-day lesson plan that makes lesson planning easy and streamlined.

Curriculum maps list lesson plans by day of the week and by section of the day

Read-Alouds

Use the story map materials and adapted pieces to help bring this story to life! Upon completion, we have provided both digital and printable versions of our comprehension assessments.

This month’s texts include:

  • Snow by Grace Hansen (Free on Epic!)
  • Snow by Uri Shulevitz
  • Snowflake Poem (included in the download)
  • Snow Much Fun (included in the download)

Anchor Charts

Did you know all of our anchor charts include a printable and digital version?

So whether you want to print and assemble the pieces together as a class or get some extra practice with the Google Slides version, you’ve got plenty of options!

Some of the anchor charts this month include: Snow Vocabulary Words, Describing Snow, Dressing for the Weather, Labeling Winter Gear, In the Snow Predictable Chart, and Sorting Hot and Cold.

Snowman anchor chart for early special education lesson plans

Easy Art + Writing

These Easy Art craft activities are so much more than “just a craft.” With step-by-step visual directions, students develop fine motor skills as they cut a coffee filter to make a snowflake.

They will learn about shapes as they cut and paste a Shape Snowscape and Snowman Craft. Students will practice spelling their names with our Snowman Name craft.

And don’t forget all the differentiated writing activities we’ve adapted for both writers and pre-writers!

Easy art snowman craft and writing worksheets for early special education lesson plans

Centers & Digital PDFs

With 16 different math and ELA task boxes and file folders, instilling independence will be a breeze! (Read more about how to set up an independent work-station here).

This unit also comes with 8 digital centers accessible as both interactive PDFs and self-correcting Boom Cards!

Some of our snow-themed centers cover skills such as vocabulary terms, ten frames, 1:1 correspondence, alphabetical order, tally marks, base ten blocks, rhyming words, category sorting, comparing numbers, puzzles, sentences, short e words, sorting by size, skip counting, sight words, and compound words.

Worksheets attached to a manilla file folder and clothes pins to help complete the assignment

Cut-And-Paste Worksheets

We know that worksheets are sometimes associated with “busy work.” However, we know that these cut-and-paste activities are a much more powerful tool than just mindless worksheets when used correctly.

Students work on academic skills while also enhancing their fine motor skills as they cut, sort, and glue the activity pieces. These skills mirror the task box and file folder skills for even more hands-on practice!

Worksheets printed on blue and purple paper with scissors and glue

Visual and Sensory Recipes

Students (and staff) are obsessed with our Made For Me Literacy visual recipes! Your students will love making a puffy paint snowman, a snowstorm in a jar, and a tasty snowflake snack.

Teacher Tip: many speech teachers love to attend these lessons, as recipes focus on so many awesome language skills and following direction skills!

Several snowman crafts pictured along with the visual recipes and worksheets needed to complete

Looking for more Snow-Themed activities?

Check these out:

Winter Basic Skills Task Boxes for Preschool
Winter Cut-and-Paste Activities 
Easy Art and Writing Activities 
December and January Task Boxes for Kindergarten
Math File Folders 
Basic Skill Activity Packs

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