Lesson Planning Tools

AI-powered platforms for creating CEFR-aligned lesson plans, differentiated materials, and assessments.

12 Tools Researched & Verified Affiliate Disclosures

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Brisk Teaching

Lesson Planning Freemium

Browser extension functioning seamlessly within Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 tools. Enables AI-powered support for lesson planning, differentiation, grading, and assessment creation without switching applications. Approved vendor through multiple trusted education networks.

Key Features

  • Browser extension integration for seamless workflow in Chrome and Edge
  • 35+ resource creation tools (lesson plans
  • DOK questions
  • rubrics

AI lesson plan generator powered by Magic Write technology, enabling complete lesson plan creation from single text prompts. Free access through Canva for Education with FERPA and COPPA compliance. Extends plans into complete interactive courses using Magic Activities.

Key Features

  • Single-prompt lesson plan generation with objectives
  • assessments
  • materials
  • Magic Activities for course extension into comprehensive units

Curipod

Lesson Planning Freemium

Interactive instructional delivery platform combining AI-generated lesson generation with embedded formative assessment and real-time student response analysis. Creates 100% active participation through interactive elements throughout lessons with immediate AI-powered feedback.

Key Features

  • AI-powered lesson generation aligned to standards and customizable
  • Real-time student participation with polls
  • drawings
  • word clouds

Diffit

Lesson Planning Freemium

Specializes in creating 'just right' instructional materials by adapting any content to multiple reading levels simultaneously. Exceptionally valuable for multilevel classrooms with diverse reading abilities. Enables teachers to input any source and receive automatically leveled texts with scaffolds.

Key Features

  • Multi-level text generation from single source material
  • Flexible differentiation beyond reading level (graphic organizers
  • DOK levels)
  • Inclusion and small group support keeping all students on same content

Eduaide.AI

Lesson Planning Freemium

Comprehensive platform with 120+ tools grounded in educational research and proven pedagogical methods. Every tool is mapped to evidence-based instructional strategies through internal Knowledge Graph. Features Erasmus AI teaching assistant for conversational tool use.

Key Features

  • Pedagogically grounded tool suite mapped to research-backed strategies
  • Erasmus AI teaching assistant understanding workspace context
  • Flexible modular tool architecture working across grade levels
  • Language and complexity adjustment for diverse learners

MagicSchool AI

Lesson Planning Freemium

One of the most comprehensive AI platforms for educators, offering 80+ specialized teacher tools and 50+ student-facing features. Excels at rapidly generating standards-aligned lesson plans, differentiated materials, and personalized learning experiences with industry-leading privacy protections.

Key Features

  • Standards alignment across Common Core
  • NGSS
  • TEKS
  • International Baccalaureate

Nearpod

Lesson Planning Freemium

Award-winning interactive delivery platform emphasizing formative assessment integration and real-time student response visibility. Features 22,000+ standards-aligned lessons created by expert curriculum teams. Real-time dashboard showing student comprehension enables rapid instructional adjustments.

Key Features

  • Interactive lesson creation with multiple activity types (polls
  • drawing
  • matching)
  • 22

Piktochart AI

Lesson Planning Freemium

Visual presentation and infographic creation tool with integrated AI-powered lesson plan generation. Enables creation of visually engaging lesson plans through AI-generated templates and manual customization, transforming text-based plans into visual formats for visual learners.

Key Features

  • AI lesson plan generation from prompts creating customized templates
  • Document transformation uploading PDFs
  • DOCX
  • TXT files for visualization

Quill.org

Lesson Planning Free

Non-profit providing free literacy activities building reading comprehension, writing, and language skills for elementary through high school. Features evidence-based sentence construction, proofreading, grammar practice, and diagnostic assessments generating personalized learning plans.

Key Features

  • Reading for Evidence tool with nonfiction texts and writing prompts
  • Sentence combining for structural development with instant feedback
  • Quill Lessons for whole-class and small-group interactive instruction
  • Diagnostic assessments identifying skill gaps and generating personalized plans

SchoolAI

Lesson Planning Free

Comprehensive platform used in 1M+ classrooms offering flexible AI support for personalized learning, lesson planning, and student progress tracking. Features 'Spaces' (interactive AI-driven chat experiences) with real-time student progress monitoring identifying specific comprehension struggles.

Key Features

  • 200
  • 000+ reusable Spaces for personalized AI sidekick interactions
  • Real-time student progress monitoring showing who struggles with which concepts
  • Unlimited interactive lesson creation meeting desired outcomes

TeacherMatic

Lesson Planning Paid

AI toolkit designed by educators specifically to reduce workload and transform efficiency. Language Teaching Edition developed with International House World Organisation, NILE, Eaquals, and English UK provides CEFR-aligned generators, level checkers, and targeted vocabulary/grammar task creation.

Key Features

  • CEFR-aligned lesson plan generator for targeted proficiency-specific lessons
  • Create a Text and Multiple Choice Question generators for original content
  • Language-specific tools suite (level checkers
  • adaptation tools)

Twee

Lesson Planning Freemium

Specialized platform designed specifically for language teachers, offering 40+ dedicated tools for teaching all English language skills across CEFR levels A1-C2. Optimized for language-specific needs including automatic CEFR level determination and pronunciation guidance.

Key Features

  • CEFR-level specific content generation (A1-C2) with automatic proficiency adjustment
  • Automatic assessment and grading of student responses
  • Multi-skill development across reading
  • writing