Lesson Plan Template
You’ll write this lesson again next year. Write it once properly.
A lesson plan template is only worth anything if you can find it in eleven months and change three things. Printable PDFs can’t do that. In Skrib the plan is a live document: the whole unit sits on one Board, each lesson is a card you can open and edit, and your worksheets, readings and slides sit in the Library beside them.
What’s in the lesson plan template
Ten fields, laid out as editable cards, following the shape of a lesson rather than a filing cabinet.
• Objective & Standards: What students will be able to do by the bell, tied to the curriculum point it serves.
• Prior Knowledge: What this lesson assumes they already have.
• Materials & Prep: Everything you need on the desk, with the files attached.
• Hook / Starter: The first five minutes, where attention is won or lost.
• Direct Instruction: The teaching itself, timed.
• Guided Practice: Working it through together, with the questions you’ll ask.
• Independent Practice: What they do alone, and what “done” looks like.
• Assessment & Success Criteria: How you’ll know it landed - formative and summative.
• Differentiation & Support: Extension, scaffolding and access needs, planned rather than improvised.
• Homework & Reflection: What follows, and what you’d change next time.
Why plan lessons in Skrib?
A printable template is a form. A Board is a term’s teaching, visible at once.
• See the Whole Unit: Every lesson in a scheme of work laid out on one infinite Board, so the arc across six weeks is as clear as the arc across one hour.
• Reuse Without Rebuilding: Duplicate a plan, change the text, keep the structure. Last year’s version stays intact in your Library.
• Resources Where You Need Them: Readings, worksheets, spreadsheets and slides upload straight to the Board, so the lesson and its materials never separate.
• Print or Share Clean: Export to .docx or .pdf for a department folder, an observation or a cover teacher.
• Reflection That Survives: The note you make after a lesson stays with that lesson, searchable next year when you teach it again.
Who is this lesson plan template for?
• Classroom Teachers across primary, secondary and K–12 planning weekly and daily lessons.
• English and Creative Writing Teachers building writing units, workshops and coursework.
• University Lecturers and TAs structuring seminars and tutorial sessions.
• Homeschool Educators and Tutors who need a plan that flexes to one student.
• Workshop Facilitators running writing groups and courses outside school.
Plan the lesson, keep the plan
Drop the template on your Board, fill in what you know, and build the unit around it.
