5-Day No-Prep Sub Plan — 1st Grade (All Subjects)

Response Resources 5-day no-prep 1st Grade substitute plan cover

Five full days of no-prep, substitute-ready first grade, covering reading, math, writing, word study, science and social studies — every subject the person covering your room has to fill. Each day is two pages: an original nonfiction reading with every answer on the handout, then a math review that checks its own answers, and a find-the-mistake task every student does (word study on Days 2 and 4, editing on Day 5, a science correction on Days 1 and 3). The readings use short first-grade sentences and work read aloud by the substitute or read independently by your stronger readers. The math stays inside first grade: adding and subtracting to 20, missing numbers, and story problems. Nothing needs a device, a textbook, a login, or a teacher who knows the content. You come back to a complete set of answer keys and a class that kept working.

  • Sub & Teacher Notes cover sheet — what to hand out each day

  • 5 self-checking worksheet sets (one per day, 62 questions total) + 5 answer keys

  • 17-page PDF: print pages 1-11 for the student set; answer keys at the back

  • Each day is standalone — no prior lesson needed; run the days in any order

  • 1st Grade; tagged Emergency Sub Plans + First Week of School

Preview of the 1st Grade sub plan — Sub & Teacher Notes page

Keep a printed set in your sub folder and you're covered for the unexpected — a no-prep sub plan from Response Resources.

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