Creating Lesson Plans for Homeschooling

With the homeschool calendar in hand, you can begin planning what you will be doing on each of those days. With help from this article, you will be making great lesson plans in no time!

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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.

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