Upload a novel, a speech, a set of primary documents — .txt, .docx, or a text-layer .pdf. Lesson Plan Factory writes the unit from those actual sources: teacher plan, answer key, and the student handouts the subject calls for, ready to print.
Every stage starts with the text you uploaded — its passages, its line numbers, its vocabulary — not a summary of what the model remembers.
Drop in a full text or a folder of primary documents. The engine selects passages, anchors every day to real line numbers, and builds the unit around your sources — not a generic unit on the same theme. Scanned PDFs are read with OCR after you approve the cost.
One lesson produces two student tiers. The scaffolded set keeps the same passages, questions and objectives, then adds the supports you choose: sentence frames, chunked references, margin glossaries and graphic organizers.
Edit the markdown, change the standards, adjust the pacing, then regenerate. The teacher plan and both student tiers follow the change. Nothing is locked into a one-shot output you have to retype.
Every unit ships with a teacher plan and answer key, the student packet in standard and scaffolded tiers, and the handouts the subject needs — from inference cards and reading calendars to document analysis sheets and evidence charts. PDFs render on demand; no stale files.
Choose from the Lesson Plan Factory shelf, search Project Gutenberg inside the lesson, or drop in a .txt — the app fetches and cleans the text for you. Then it does more than plan from it: it strips the license boilerplate, keeps the edition's own front matter, and typesets a line-numbered Student Reading PDF. Title page, contents and preface on their own pages, then the story starting fresh — a book a student can read from, with the numbering your plan cites.
Gutenberg headers, footers and production credits are removed at upload. The edition's own contents, dedication, preface and characters list are kept, set in roman numerals ahead of the story — so Chapter One really is page 1.
Every fifth line is numbered in the margin — 50, 55, 60 — and those are the numbers the plan cites. When Day 3 says L204–L241, the student's page says 204 in the margin. Short texts still number every line.
A title page, roman numerals through the front matter, then the story restarting at page 1 in a centred footer. A full novel renders in about ten seconds the first time, and is cached after that — so a class set is a click, not a conversion job.
For public-domain texts — Project Gutenberg is the largest free source. Your own uploads of in-copyright books still get the full plan and handouts; the complete-book PDF is offered for Gutenberg files.
A class level and a handout tier answer different questions. Confusing them is how teachers end up with the right lesson pitched at the wrong room, or the wrong packet for the right student.
The level sets the pitch of the unit: how much scaffolding is baked in, how text is chunked, how independently students are expected to work, and how long the writing is. The standard itself does not get easier — the route to it changes.
The tier sets the student packet: same passages, same questions, same objectives. The scaffolded tier adds sentence frames, chunked references, glossaries and organizers; the ELL sheet adds vocabulary with a home-language column.
They are independent on purpose. A General class can still need a scaffolded packet for one student. An AP section can still print the standard tier. Tier 2 is preselected for Resource sections, and you can change it on any lesson.
Three decisions, one upload, and the prep work is done.
Drop in a novel, play, speech, or a set of primary documents as .txt, .docx or a text-layer PDF. Or paste the passage you are teaching this week.
Choose the class and its course, set the sessions, pick the standards that class is accountable for, then choose the student tiers and scaffolding overlays you want.
Open the teacher pacing guide and answer key, then print the student packet and the subject's handouts. Every quote is tied to your sources.
Lesson Plan Factory is built around the parts of unit planning that actually consume a teacher's week.
Stop rebuilding the same lesson at a lower reading level. The scaffolded tier starts from the standard tier and keeps every question, passage and objective identical.
Passages and line references come from the text you supplied. Standards carry evidence — the day and the task — so a claim can be checked, not taken on faith.
Start with a complete, editable unit instead of a blank document. Keep what works, change what does not, and regenerate without starting over.
Teacher quotes will appear here as pilot classrooms share them. Until then, judge us by the unit you generate.
One credit is one complete unit: the teacher plan, the answer key, and every student tier you request. No per-seat theatre.
For the teacher who wants to see a real unit before paying for one.
No card. No student data.
For the teacher running four sections and a life outside school.
Paid billing opens with pilot departments. Early accounts keep their 10 credits, with no expiry.
For a department that wants one shared library instead of eight separate folders.
We will map your state's standards with you.
Bought credits never expire; the free allowance lasts 30 days, and a plan's monthly credits are topped back up on your anniversary — 15 left becomes 20, not 35. We spend whichever credits expire soonest first. One credit covers one generation, including every requested handout tier; a regeneration costs one credit, and failed generations are refunded automatically.
Upload the text. Choose the class level. Print the unit. Your 10 free credits are waiting.
A unit built from documents, not a summary of them.
Attach the sources your class actually reads — a speech, a letter, a photograph, a map, an excerpt — and the unit is written around sourcing, corroboration and evidence.
Multiple sources, one inquiry
Attach as many documents as the lesson needs. Each keeps its own citation, so a student can find the paragraph the question came from.
Sourcing and corroboration
Every day is anchored to a historical thinking move: who made this, when, for whom, and what another source says about the same event.
Handouts that fit the discipline
Document analysis sheets, an inquiry journal, an evidence and reasoning chart, key terms, a timeline, and a document-based question packet — all generated with the plan.
Compelling questions, not busywork
The unit opens with a question worth arguing and sequences the sources so each day builds toward an evidence-based answer.