Creating Lesson Plans for Homeschooling

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Creating a Lesson Plan: A More Complex Example
Now let's take a look at how you might develop a lesson plan for a curriculum that isn't quite as cut and dried as the Math example. For this example, we'll do some lesson planning for the English curriculum.

Part of an English Subject/Curriculum List for a Student

Student	Grade Level	Subjects	Curriculum Elements	Teaching Materials
Grace	5th Grade	English (Literature, writing, spelling, grammar)	Book club	Borrow books to read from library as needed
			Grammar	Grammar: Grammar Basics
			Spelling	Spelling Workbook
				Spelling Source Book

In this extract, there are three curriculum elements of the subject, which is English. Each of the elements needs to be planned. Some elements, like Grammar, might include teaching materials that provide lessons while others, for example the Book club, might not.

The lesson plan for English for this student would need to address each of these elements by creating the "lessons" associated with those elements with each school day.

Example of a Lesson Plan for the English Curriculum for a Student

Day	Date	Subject/Curriculum	Lesson Number and Topic	Estimated Time
Mon	September 6	English/Grammar	Lesson 1, Grammar Concepts	30 min
Mon	September 6	English/Spelling	Words to Live By: Week 1, Lesson 1	30 min
Mon	September 6	English/Literature (Reading for book club)	The Chronicles of Narnia, Chapters 1-2	30 min
Tue	September 7	English/Grammar	Lesson 2, Parts of Speech	30 min
Tue	September 7	English/Spelling	Words to Live By: Week 1, Lesson 2	30 min
Tue	September 7	English/Literature (Reading for book club)	The Chronicles of Narnia, Chapters 3-4	30 min
Wed	September 8	English/Grammar	Lesson 3, More on Parts of Speech	30 min
Wed	September 8	English/Spelling	Words to Live By: Week 1, Lesson 3	30 min
Wed	September 8	English/Literature (Reading for book club)	The Chronicles of Narnia, Chapters 5-6	30 min
Wed	September 15	English/Grammar	None, field trip	N/A
Wed	September 15	English/Spelling	None, field trip	N/A
Wed	September 15	English/Literature (Reading for book club)	None, field trip	N/A

This process would be continued until all the curriculum's elements were mapped onto the days on which they will be taught.