One class, many subjects

Elementary Lesson Plan Templates

The elementary day is a sequence of subject blocks, so the daily plan here runs morning meeting to closing circle with a time, a standard, a plan and materials for each. The weekly grid puts the same subjects down the side across five days, and the simple plan is for the block that needs more room than a row.

Daily blocks, weekly grid, one-pager

3 elementary lesson plan templates

Portrait elementary daily plan with eight subject-block rows from morning meeting to closing circle and columns for time, standard, plan and materials

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Elementary Daily Lesson Plan — Word & Google Docs

Eight subject blocks from morning meeting to closing circle, each with time, standard, plan and materials, and a small-groups box at the foot.

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Elementary Daily Lesson Plan — fillable PDF

One page, portrait. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Landscape weekly lesson plan grid with subject rows from morning meeting to specials and five weekday columns, standards and small-group boxes below

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Weekly Lesson Plan — Subjects — Word & Google Docs

Morning meeting, reading, writing, math, science, social studies and specials down the side, the five days across. For one teacher, one class.

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Weekly Lesson Plan — Subjects — fillable PDF

One page, landscape. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Portrait one-page lesson plan with four tall labelled boxes for what students will learn, activities, how I will check, and homework

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Simple Lesson Plan — Word & Google Docs

Four big boxes: what students will learn, activities in order, how I will check, homework. The plan most teachers keep for themselves.

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Simple Lesson Plan — fillable PDF

One page, portrait. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Specifications: US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches. Word files are editable .docx that open in Word 2007 through Microsoft 365, including Word for Mac; the Google Docs link makes a copy in your own Drive; the PDF has real form fields and prints as plain hairline boxes when blank. Free to use in as many classes as you like, no account, no watermark.

Why it is laid out this way

About the elementary templates

A self-contained classroom plans differently from a department. The unit of planning is the block, not the period, and the same teacher moves through reading, writing, math and the rest with the same children. A daily plan built for a single period makes an elementary teacher fill it out six times. This one is a single page with the whole day on it, a standards column so each block carries its own code, and a small-groups box at the foot where the reading groups live.

The weekly grid is the companion: subjects down, days across, at a phrase per cell. Most elementary teachers keep the grid for the week and open the daily sheet for the day someone is coming in.

Questions teachers ask

Elementary lesson plans, answered

Where do reading groups go?

In the small-groups box at the foot of the daily plan, by group name with the text and the skill, and in the Reading cell of the weekly grid at a word per group. A guided reading template with running-record notes is planned for the subjects set.

What about specials and lunch?

They are rows on the daily plan, because the day's timing depends on them and a sub needs to see them. Leave the plan column blank and use the time column.

Can I use these for kindergarten?

The daily plan works for kindergarten with the block names changed; many K teachers prefer a centers-based grid closer to the preschool format, which is coming in the early-childhood set along with the pre-K and kindergarten sheets.