What it is
Lessonwriter is a free website for teachers that creates lesson plans and instructional materials for teaching English
language skills from any reading passage
How it works
- Copy & paste any text you choose into LessonWriter.
- LessonWriter analyzes text for vocabulary, grammar and usage, pronunciation, and
word roots and stems.
- Follow step-by-step procedures for adding questions, support material and graphic organizers.
- Choose differentiation and sheltered instruction options.
- LessonWriter produces a standards-based lesson plan and teaching materials from your material.
How LessonWriter helps teachers
- Save Time Create high-quality, standards-based lesson plans and teaching
materials from text in about a minute.
- Be Creative Scripts, poems, articles,
stories, and more. LessonWriter automatically creates lessons and materials from
any text from any source. Choose different content to meet the interests and needs
of individual groups of students while teaching the same English language skills
to the entire class, or teach the same content but emphasize different skills and
vocabulary for separate students.
- Accommodate Students LessonWriter generates suggestions for differentiating
and implementing the lesson to individual students.
- Track Classes All lessons are permanently recorded for easy and reliable
reporting.
- Design a Unit of Study
Content and skills taught to each registered class are automatically tracked, and
the next skills needed to systematically cover English Language Arts Learning Standards
are recommended.
How LessonWriter Helps Students
- Spurs motivation by allowing teachers to choose relevant and engaging reading material.
- Customizes materials to make reading more manageable. LessonWriter can:
- Divide any text into shorter passages based on the number of vocabulary words in
each passage.
- Pre-teach vocabulary where necessary.
- Ask comprehension questions throughout a reading to reinforce knowledge.
- Presents materials in a variety of diverse ways so no one ever feels left behind
or held back.
How LessonWriter Helps Administrators
- Gives content-area teachers a tool to embed literacy and English language acquisition
skills into any unit of study in any subject area.
- Ensures instructional quality by enabling teachers of any experience level to easily
create complete lessons in a systematic and time-efficient manner.
- Helps English language learners and students with low-literacy levels handle text
that might otherwise be too demanding.
- Tracks content and skills taught and recommends the subsequent instructional objectives needed to systematically cover English Language Arts Learning Standards.
Differentiated Instruction with LessonWriter
Increasingly, teachers are leading classes with students with diverse backgrounds,
skills, learning styles, and challenges. Every lesson plan that LessonWriter generates
offers suggestions for differentiating instruction and implementing the lesson.
In addition, LessonWriter enables teachers to easily differentiate resources for
students. Teachers can choose different content to meet the interests and needs
of individual groups of students while teaching the same English Language Skills
to the entire class, or keep the content consistent while choosing to emphasize
different skills and vocabulary.