Lesson Templates

We have adapted The Reading League's 6-Step Lesson Plan to fit our needs for teaching older emerging readers. It is program-agnostic and works well with our phonemic awareness and phonics curricula. Our work with this lesson plan began with a Reading League Online Knowledge Block Training. Highly recommended!

Anita Archer's (2018) refrain, "Cut the fluff and teach the stuff," comes to mind. We find this lesson plan focuses on the basics: sounds and letters, letters and sounds, reading and spelling words, and ample practice reading connected text. 

Lesson Examples

Please note:

These example plans are from real lessons. Are they perfect? No - we can always improve. But, they are: 

• focused on increasing opportunities for students to practice with success

• responsive to individual students' needs before and during each lesson

• always opened with a handshake and a "Thank you for coming. How are you today?" and closed with a handshake and individualized affirmations

• We hope what stands out is that the skills are not very different from what we'd teach a 1st or 2nd grader. It's how we teach that is different. These are young adults. They need authentic, respectful relationships with their teacher and peers