Welcome to the community! I’ve been making those videos just for this purpose and will continue looking into what materials need to be created to help teachers make the most of the lessons. Since the lessons are structured similarly across units, you’ll find that once you find your feet, you’ll be able to use a similar class structure for all of your lessons going forward, just swapping in the next unit’s pages and mixing up some of your activities.

There are a lot of variables to consider when discussing lesson planning: how many days a week and for how long do you have your students? What are your main goals with your students (i.e. Some students speak fluently but struggle with reading and writing at grade level)? How motivated are your students to put in the work required (This will affect how much content you can get through in the given time and how much you can expect them to practice at home).

Generally speaking, I recommend doing some of everything every class if time allows: some vocabulary, some speaking/listening, some reading, & some writing. If you’re short on time, you may not be able to do this and will need to choose which content to focus on on which day (i.e. Vocab & Grammar one day. Vocab review & Literacy another day) If you’re students need more literacy practice and less grammar, you can adjust according to your needs. The lessons have been organized the way they are in order to give you as much flexibility as possible to decide what is best for your students. Below, I’ll discuss what it could look like if you’re able to do a little bit of everything every class.

Example Lesson Outline for 3 days.
Each unit includes practice in all language domains. Day 1: 1. Start with teaching vocabulary because it is usually foundational to the rest of the unit. 2. I then usually recommend speaking practice since it is easier than reading and writing. The grammar pages in the curriculum are designed to be used for speaking first before students attempt to practice the grammar in writing. The idea is to spend a small amount of time explaining grammar and the majority of the time using it in speaking and writing. 3. Afterward, you can jump into literacy content. I am working on the video for this type of lesson and it should be released quite soon. Do some writing from one of the lessons like a grammar worksheet or literacy graphic organizer, etc. Day 2: 1. Review vocabulary and grammar from day 1 and practice some more. Introduce new vocab if you weren’t able to get through all of the vocab from day 2. Continue reading the literacy passage for longer passages (at higher levels) or reread the literacy passage for shorter passages (lower levels). 3. Do writing preparation for own writing (i.e. story, opinion, essay, etc. usually found at the end of the literacy lesson.) Day 3. 1. Review and practice vocab and grammar. 2. Continue reading (or rereading) and responding to the reading passage. 3. Start writing your own passage based on the writing preparation.

I like to set up challenges for students to complete each class which is something I discuss in more detail in the videos and in the example lesson plans which you can find on the Getting Organized Page (link below), in the lesson planning resources for any level or lesson, or by going to the top menu Tools -> Admin Tools:
https://member.kid-inspired.com/get-organized-with-the-kid-inspired-esl-curriculum/

You can download and print the lessons from a unit and organize them in a binder to be used in class. You will likely not need to use all of the pages in a lesson. There is a lot there and you can decide how much you would like to use, how much you would like to have ready as extra in case you have extra time or faster students, and how much you’d like to skip.

The students can keep a binder of pages you give them. Since you’ll often be using the main practice pages (i.e. vocabulary word banks, grammar practice pages, story pages, etc.) multiple times throughout the week or two you’re teaching the lesson, having the students keep those pages organized so that they can go back to practice or reference those pages any time during that unit is helpful.

I’ll be looking into creating some more-detailed example lesson plan outlines like above for different scenarios teachers may find themselves in.

Let me know if that helps or if you have any other questions!

All my best,
John