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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.