ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan Submissions

	Write Your Lesson

What do you need to know to write a lesson?

1. To get started on your lesson plan, download the Author Guidelines (PDF), which outline the required portions of every lesson plan and include information on additional sources that will help you write your lesson plan. Read the information, and let us know if you have any questions.
   
   
2. Be sure that your lesson plan uses bias-free and inclusive language. Avoid language, examples, or illustrations that stereotype persons, groups, or institutions on the basis of ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental abilities, age, religious affiliation, or economic status. See Guidelines for Gender-Fair Use of Language for additional information.
   
   
3. Check your lesson plans for materials that require permissions. Keep in mind that it's not just published work that requires permission. Research involving human subjects, samples of student writing, artwork, photographs, observations of teachers and their classrooms—all require consent to publish before they can be used in someone's published work. Authors are responsible for any fees charged for reprinting copyrighted material. Commercially created materials adapted by teachers must comply with copyright guidelines.
   
   
4. If you use a student's work—including but not limited to artwork, photographs, poems, more than 10 percent of a student's prose text, or any portion of student-prepared text that is of a very personal nature—we request that you submit a consent form signed by the student or the student's guardian (if the student is younger than 18), expressly granting permission to publish the selected piece. You may use pseudonyms, if this is noted in the text. However, using pseudonyms without consent is not enough: we still need the signed consent forms on file.
   
   
5. Download the Microsoft Word template, which provides the headers and details on the sections of a ReadWriteThink lesson plan. All the sections are required before the lesson plan can be sent out for review.