Life skills and special education
Reading Schedules Life Skills
Bus Schedules, Work Shifts & Elapsed Time
- Grades
- Grades 6–12
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 27
- Answer keys
- Included
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Help students get to school, work and appointments on time! These reading schedules life skills worksheets use realistic bus and train timetables, a work shift schedule, movie showtimes, a class bell schedule and a TV listing, with leveled questions from finding a time to planning a trip with a transfer and finding elapsed time.
What's included
- Teacher guide with flexible 8-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 math + CASEL self-management)
- Schedule words and time basics (clock matching, a.m. or p.m.)
- 3 timetables: Route 12 city bus, Route 30 city bus and the Blue Line train (read across and read down)
- Level 1: Find a Time (large print, circle answers)
- Level 2: Which Bus Arrives Before...? (on-time trips, next bus and wait time)
- Level 3: Elapsed Time & Trips and Plan a Trip with a Transfer
- Elapsed time on a number line with a worked example (including across noon)
- Work shift schedule: shift lengths, unpaid breaks and paid hours
- Movie showtimes with previews and a curfew
- Class bell schedule: passing time and leaving early for an appointment
- TV & streaming schedule: show lengths and binge-watch math
- Plan Your Day schedule builder
- 16 leveled task cards + recording sheet
- Schedule 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 functional math classes, or before travel training. Students at different levels share the same timetables while working on their own level's page. Extend it with your own city's bus schedule or a transit app.
Skills practiced
Reading tablesa.m. and p.m.arriving on timewait timeelapsed timetransferswork schedulesplanning a day
