Instructions Lesson Plans

Students build electrical circuits. For this lesson teaching pre-service teachers how to use the 5E instructional model, students use materials to explore how to create an electrical circuit.

Students learn the importance of including details when writing. In this writing lesson plan, students describe the steps on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and the teacher follows their directions.  Students observe and make corrections to their instructions as necessary. &nbs

Students write step-by-step instructions for tasks. In this factual writing lesson, students complete an online activity. Each group also writes directions for completing a task. A worksheet is available for more practice.

Bring Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Mad Libs, and cloze activities to your college class with this lesson. They complete a cloze instruction activity in which the students choose words that would fill in the blanks and create their own cloze text. All necessary sources are provided at the end of the lesson.

Students follow directions to put on a jacket. In this following directions lesson, students are given flawed instructions for putting on a jacket and must adjust them so the job can be completed.

Eighth graders examine how to write and give clear, sequential instructions. On a handout, they write instructions for playing a card game, sewing a pillow, or getting to the movie theater, and discuss how to write directions using clear language in chronological order.

Ninth graders explore how to write clear instructions and steps. They write directions for a selected topic. Students create clear and complete directions on how to complete the task. After reading their directions to a partner, they give feedback on the clarity of the directions.

Second graders explore instructional text. Through shared reading and writing, teacher demonstrates the sequential steps in writing instructions. Working in pairs student use a sentence frame to begin writing instructional text.

Students design a passport page that includes information about the story "Lon Po Po " and complete a passport using a template in the computer program Kidspirations. In this differentiated instruction technology project template instructional activity, students discover how to respond to a story while answering significant questions.

Students practice the concept of rhyming and alliteration. In this differentiated Instruction Technology Project Template lesson, students  use a Kidspiration template to match rhyming words. Students listen to the story "Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! to review rhyming.