Textbooks are convenient, and provide the basic materials teachers need to teach classes, but there can be many reasons why a teacher may decide to teach a non-textbook based lesson; the material of the textbook doesn’t stretch the contacted length of classes; the students have improved beyond the level of the materials provided; the teacher feels that the students would benefit from taking a break from the usual lesson format.

For whatever the reasons we list here lesson plans that can be used to supplement and expand on syllabi aimed at different ages and sizes of classes. Classes are separated into the following categories: