The four questions every lesson must answer
What, Why, How, and Now what — the GRG teaching frame.
Four questions every lesson must answer
Here's a frame you can drop onto any lesson, in any subject, forever. Every lesson worth a learner's time answers four questions in order: What, Why, How, and Now what.
Miss one and the lesson wobbles. Skip the Why and learners don't care. Skip the How and they can't act. Skip the Now what and nothing changes once they close the tab. Get all four and even a five-minute lesson lands.
The four questions, unpacked
Expand each to see what it does and how to write it.
Name the one thing this lesson is about, plainly. Not the topic area, the specific thing they'll walk away knowing or doing. If you can't say it in a sentence, the lesson is trying to do too much.
Match the statement to the question
Select a statement, then choose which of the four questions it answers.
What / Why
How / Now what
A lesson explains a concept and its importance clearly, but learners say they 'get it but can't use it.' Which questions are likely missing?