Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

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I do, we do, you do 3

Direct instruction lesson plan, examples and checks The same five rows with other columns: Examples to use and Check for understanding. A Homework line at the foot.
Direct instruction lesson plan, I do, we do, you do Lines for Teacher, Date, Subject and Objective, then a table with the rows Review, I do, We do, You do, and Check and close, and columns for What the teacher says and does, What students do and Minutes.
Direct instruction lesson plans, 2 to a page Half-page tables, one above the other: Subject, Date and Objective, then the rows I do, We do and You do with a Teacher column and a Students column.

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Scripts, questions and prompts 3

Direct instruction lesson plan with questions and errors Ruled lines under six headings: Objective, Model: what I will say and show, Questions to ask, Errors and how to correct them, Independent practice and Check.
Scripted lesson plan, teacher says and students say or do A lesson written out line by line: two columns, Teacher says and Students say or do, with 12 rows. Lesson and Date lines at the top.
We do practice list, 10 prompts Ten numbered rows for the problems or prompts of guided practice, with boxes to check for how the class answers (All, Pairs or One) and a box for right first time.

With supports 1

Scaffolded lesson plan, supports by step Four rows, I do, We do, You do together and You do alone, with columns for What the teacher does, What students do and Supports. A line at the foot names the supports to take away next time.

Filled-in sample 1

Sample: a lesson on rounding to the nearest ten, filled in Sample. The I do, we do, you do plan filled in for a made-up math lesson, to show how little goes in each box. The minutes are one teacher's guess for one class.

How this list was compiled: Written and laid out in-house for this page on October 2, 2026. Every sheet is a plain form to fill in by hand; the headings are everyday planning words, and no school district's, publisher's or program's form is copied. Direct instruction is used here in its general, lower-case sense: a teacher-led lesson that moves from showing to guided practice to independent practice (I do, we do, you do), as the Wikipedia article Direct instruction describes it (read October 2, 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0). The sample lesson is made up. Licence: own work

How it works

This direct instruction lesson plan template opens on a table with five rows, Review, I do, We do, You do, and Check and close, and columns for what the teacher says and does, what students do, and minutes.

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Fill the table row by row

Press Print the lesson plan. Write the objective at the top. In I do, note what you will say and show; in We do, the examples the class works with you; in You do, the task students do alone.

Scripts and supports

The script sheet has two columns, Teacher says and Students say or do, and 12 rows. The scaffolded sheet adds a Supports column beside I do, We do, You do together and You do alone.

One sheet has blocks for Questions to ask and Errors and how to correct them.
The We do practice list numbers 10 prompts, with boxes to check for how the class answers.

Questions and answers

What is a direct instruction lesson plan?

It plans a teacher-led lesson: the teacher reviews, shows the new skill, practices it with the class, then students practice alone and the teacher checks. This template gives each of those steps a row.

Is there a scripted lesson plan template?

Yes. On the script sheet you write the words you will say down the left and what students say or do down the right, 12 rows in all. The page supplies no script.

Is there a scaffolding lesson plan template?

Yes. The scaffolded sheet has a Supports column for each step, for a worked example or sentence starters, and a line at the foot for the supports to take away next time.

Is this a published program?

No. Direct instruction here means teacher-led teaching in general, in lower case. The forms are our own, and no publisher's scripted program or lessons are copied or named.