How to Write a Lesson Plan – The 5Es Format

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This blog post is a transcript of our YouTube video How to Write a Lesson Plan – The 5Es Format.

Hello everyone!

To complete our Lesson Plan series, in this video we will discuss another lesson plan format—the 5 Es or Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate.

What is the 5Es format? How do you use it? And how is it different from the 3Is and the 4As?

This video is already the third part of our Lesson Plan series. In case you haven’t watched the first and second part yet, I recommend you watch them first before this one, so that you will have a background of the lesson plan parts and formats we have discussed so far: the 3Is and the 4As.

Now to see how the 5Es format works, we will be using the same Objectives and Subject Matter from our 3Is lesson plan video.

Let’s have a quick recap of these parts before we proceed.

I. Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
  1. construct questions answerable by yes/no, and
  2. transform sentences into questions answerable by yes/no

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Yes/No question
Materials: pictures, power point presentation, laptop, paper, marker, etc.
Reference/s: A. Brown, Intensive English 8, pp. 32-33

The third part of the lesson plan is the Procedure. This is where we will use the 5Es format. In doing so, we will first discuss each of the format’s components (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate), then provide examples following the set Objectives and Subject Matter.

Take note that in writing this part of your lesson plan, you are going to number your items or use bullet points. The “Sample” written in the table is a projection of each component in the procedure or lesson proper. It uses the third person pronoun “she” because it assumes that the teacher is a woman.

III. Procedure


For the Evaluation part, the teacher must keep in mind the Objectives set at the beginning of the lesson plan. Here the students demonstrate what they have achieved based on the lesson Objectives, while the teacher assesses their progress.

IV. Evaluation

Instructions: Transform the following sentences into a yes/no question. Write your answer in the space provided.

1. She can drive a car.
_____________________________________________________

2. He was born in this town.
_____________________________________________________

3. They are nice.
_____________________________________________________

4. They went to the swimming pool.
_____________________________________________________

5. He loves this place.
_____________________________________________________


A complete lesson plan has five parts. The last part is the Assignment.

V. Assignment

Instructions: Read the story in pages 35-37 of your English book. Write 10 yes/no questions in your notebook based on the story, and share it to the class next meeting.

Recap

To recap, here are the five parts of a lesson plan:
  1. Objectives
  2. Topic/Subject Matter
  3. Procedure (Here you will use either of the three lesson plan formats you have learned: 3Is, 4As, or 5Es)
  4. Evaluation
  5. Assignment

There are many ways to be creative in your lessons. Just use your imagination, be resourceful, and always keep the lesson plan principles and formats we have discussed in mind.

Remember that, regardless of what type of lesson plan format your cooperating teacher, principal or dean asks you to use (the 3Is, the 4As, or the 5Es), the process of writing a lesson plan essentially remains the same.

Just remember that in writing a lesson plan—in the art of teaching as a whole—to, as Stephen Covey once said, “begin with the end in mind.”

This ends our video series on how to write a lesson plan. I hope we were somehow able to help you understand and even write your own lesson plan.