Life skills and special education
Calendar Skills & Making Appointments
Life Skills · Functional Reading
- Grades
- Grades 6–12
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 27
- Answer keys
- Included
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Teach students to keep track of dates and make their own appointments! This calendar skills and making appointments resource uses the real 2027 calendar for January through June, so every date and day of the week is correct. Students read monthly calendars at three levels, write dates, count the days until events, turn voicemails and texts into calendar entries, practice a phone call to book a doctor or dentist appointment and spot schedule conflicts.
What's included
- Teacher guide with flexible 7-session pacing, materials and differentiation (support, on level, challenge)
- How to use the levels + 6 sample IEP goals you can adapt
- Standards page (Common Core + CASEL self-management)
- Calendar words: days, weeks, months, weekday vs. weekend, days in each month
- Real 2027 calendar, January–June, with holidays and special days marked
- Maya's March 2027 calendar with work shifts, paydays, appointments and spring break
- Reading a monthly calendar: Level 1 (large print, circle and match), Level 2 and Level 3
- Writing dates in words, in numbers and in MM/DD/YYYY form boxes
- Planning ahead: how many days until...? (library due dates, prescriptions, countdowns)
- 8 voicemail and text message cards (cut apart)
- Schedule It! April 2027 calendar for recording appointments and finding a conflict
- Phone script for making a doctor or dentist appointment, with before and after checklists
- Which Time Works? role-play: choose appointment times that fit a weekly schedule
- Appointment reminder cards to read + blank reminder cards to fill in
- 16 leveled task cards + recording sheet
- Calendar Skills Check: an 8-question pre/post assessment
- IEP data tracking sheet with progress graph and skill checklist
- Complete answer keys
How to use it
Use it in life skills, special education, transition or independent living classes. Students at different levels share the same calendars while working on their own level's page. Rehearse the phone script before students make a real call.
Skills practiced
Days and monthsreading a calendarwriting datescounting daysrecording appointmentsphone skillsspotting conflicts
