Lesson Templates

We have adapted The Reading League's 6-Step Lesson Plan (TRL, 2021) 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 us 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