Lesson plan template
Daily Lesson Plan Template
A single-lesson plan you can fill in the night before. One objective, a timed sequence, and a way to know who got it.
When to use it. Use this for one lesson on one day. If you are mapping a whole week at once, the weekly template is a better fit.
The template
Print this and write in the boxes, or copy the headings into your own planning document.
Objective
What will students be able to do by the end?
Standard
Which standard does this serve?
Materials
What is printed and on desks before the bell?
Warm-up (5 min)
How do you surface what they already know?
Model (10 min)
What do you demonstrate, thinking out loud?
Guided practice (10 min)
What do you work through together?
Independent practice (15 min)
What do they do alone while you circulate?
Check for understanding
How will you know who has it?
Differentiation
One support move, one extension move.
The same template, filled in
A real 2nd grade addition lesson, so you can see the level of detail each box actually needs.
- Objective
- Students will add two two-digit numbers with regrouping.
- Standard
- 2.NBT.B.5
- Materials
- Six practice pages, base-ten blocks, whiteboard markers.
- Warm-up (5 min)
- Number talk: three ways to make 47.
- Model (10 min)
- Two problems on the board, narrating every regroup.
- Guided practice (10 min)
- Three problems, students supply each step.
- Independent practice (15 min)
- Practice page 1, while I note who is still counting on fingers.
- Check for understanding
- Sort the collected pages into fluent / developing / not yet.
- Differentiation
- Support: rebuild with blocks. Extension: write a problem for a partner.
