This document summarizes a lesson plan for teaching months of the year to a 1st grade special education class. The class has 17 students, most of whom have ADHD. The lesson plan will use tactile and kinesthetic learning methods like a "month scrambler" game with poster boards and building calendars. Students will learn the months in and out of order and name all 12 months by the end of the year. The teacher will use Prezi and unique facts about each month along with a song to engage visual and tactile learners. Students will participate in the game and calendar activity and the teacher will evaluate understanding through questioning rather than recitation.

1. Mallori Goff
January 27, 2016
CI 350-201
ASSURE Method Assignment
A - Analyze Learners
The students I will be teaching are in a 1st grade, Special Education class. There are 10
boys, 7 girls. Of this class, 70% are white, 20% are African-American, and 10% are Latino.
There are seven students in the class that have mild to severe ADHD. Since this is a first grade
classroom, and a majority of the class is diagnosed with ADHD, tactile-kinesthetic is the
appropriate learning style to utilize in this lesson.
S - State Objectives
My first grade students will demonstrate knowledge of the months of the year by reciting
the months of the year in and out of order. The class will play a game, “month scrambler”, that
involves moving around. They will also build a calendar in order to learn their classmate’s
birthday’s throughout the year. It will take the whole school year to teach my students about the
months. One-hundred percent of my class will name the months of the year, in and out of order.
S - Select The 3 M’s
I will utilize Prezi to appeal to my visual learners. Prezi has intricate movements of text
and slides themselves. These movements will visually appeal to my students, especially those
with ADHD because the movement keeps the brain stimulated. The constant movement is

2. exactly what these students with ADHD need. I will also use decorated poster board signs for the
game. I will decorate them with material and colors that corresponds to the months. The students
will build their own calendars. For this they will have 6 sheets of papers. They will draw pictures
to correspond to each month to demonstrate knowledge of the months.
U - Utilize Media and Material
I will pick unique facts that correspond with the months, such as birthdays, holidays and
seasons. Including these things will excite the students about learning the months. I will use this
information on Prezi to help visual learners see the difference in the seasons. I will also use a
song to help review the months in order. For the game, I will have 12 poster board signs
decorated like the months, along with the name of the month. Each student will use 6 sheets of
paper, and coloring utensils in order to construct their calendars.
R- Require Learner Participation
All of my students will participate in the “month scrambler game,” and they will
construct a calendar. In order to play, “month scrambler” I will hand out 10 of the posters at first.
I will keep January and June signs, for example. Each student will have a sign, with two extra.
The students will be responsible for putting themselves in order. They will recognize that 2
months are missing. They will repeat this process for about 10 minutes, and I will remove 2
different months each time. My students will construct a calendar that displays the different
seasons of the year, and will include their classmate’s birthdays, along with holidays. This is a
good way to talk about different traditions, other than our normal ones, as well.

3. E - Evaluate and Revise
Before the instruction, the students may have an idea of their birth months, which is
helpful when teaching the months. During the instruction, it is apparent that students are being to
learn the months. During the instruction, I will listen to the conversations they are having about
the seasons, holidays, or colors that are associated with a certain month. After the instruction, I
will assess them is asking them, for example, “What month comes after October?”, rather than
having them repeat the months to me. I would also say the months to them in order and
purposely leave one out, or mix it up. My students will tell me I am wrong and explain how I can
correct the order. If these learning methods do not work with my students, I will revise them. For
example, I may make the game a race in order to keep their attention on the task at hand. If the
poster board game does not work, I will find a song that covers all the months and my class and I
will choreograph an interpretive dance to help us remember the months.