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Printables
Microsoft

Back to School Welcome Letter

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Here is a basic and organized template that will help get you started on a welcome letter for parents at the beginning of the school year. It will help guide you in considering the primary components to include your letter, such as...
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Curated OER

Applying Letter Writing to Daily Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Here are some ideas to get your students writing letters with a purpose.
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Printables
abcteach

Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Worksheet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
To form the letter A, a writer must go up, down, and across. Teach your learners how to put together every letter of the alphabet, uppercase and lowercase, and use this reference page of Zaner-Bloser handwriting as a support.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Battle Flags: Michigan and the Civil War Lesson 5 Letters from the War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the letters written my Michigan soldiers during the Civil War. They examine the letters for clues about the life and attitudes of these soldiers.
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Worksheet
abcteach

Spring Missing Letters

For Students 2nd - 4th
Welcome the arrival of spring with this fun little spelling worksheet. Including different terms relating to plants, gardening, and springtime weather, children must correctly spell each word by filling in the missing letters.
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Handout
Super Duper Publications

Welcome to Kindergarten: Handwriting without Tears

For Teachers K
Do your kindergartners become frustrated when learning about handwriting? Use a guiding chart to show your learners the most efficient ways to form each lowercase letter. Additionally, it provides methods to remember how to write numbers.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geography A to Z: The Letter J

For Students 6th - 8th
How many states, capitals, countries, and locations do your kids know that begin with the letter J? Hopefully they know seven of them, because that's the number of questions on the fun and fast worksheet. 
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Revising Draft Letters to a Publisher about an Athlete’s Legacy: Critique and Feedback, Part I

For Teachers 5th Standards
Pick a corner, any corner! Pupils use the Four Corners strategy and Peer Critique protocol to assess one another's draft letters to a publisher about an athlete's legacy. Scholars then use peer feedback to revise their letters.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

No Way Out: Letters and Lessons of the Holocaust

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students read and discuss an online collection of actual letters and documents of the Holocaust era.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Reading Proficiently and Independently: The Power of Setting Goals

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Scholars reflect upon their reading strengths and challenges to create personal reading goals. Participants use goal-setting verbiage in an accordion-style graphic organizer, a first step in writing a letter that details their reading...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Match the Letters Worksheet- Level II

For Students K - 1st
In this printing practice learning exercise, students examine 10 upper and lower case letters in 2 columns. Students practice writing each letter on the line provided and then match the lower case letters to the upper case partners.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is the Beginning Sound?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students practice their phonics skills as they look at 6 pictures, say their names, and identify the letter that begins the 6 words. An animal habitat question is also included on the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Initial Sounds Mixed 4s

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this beginning sounds recognition worksheet, learners say the words for the pictures of the gloves, tiger, balloon, and mushroom, and identify the letter that begins each word.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

May Begins With the Letter M

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this letter m worksheet, learners practice their phonics skills as they look at 9 picture and say their names circling those that begin with the letter. Students also fill in 2 blanks to answer 2 riddles.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Use Capital Letters

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this grammar worksheet, students read 6 sentences and decide which words need capital letters. They write the sentences correctly on the blank lines. They circle the action words in the sentence at the bottom of the page.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Christmas Phonics: Initial Sounds

For Students K - 1st
In this Christmas phonics worksheet, students look at the Christmas images and say each word. Students circle the initial sound in the 9 words.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Persuasive Elements

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Investigate letters to the editor and their persuasive qualities. Break your class into reading groups and give each one a different article. As they read, they complete a graphic organizer to record their thoughts and opinions. There is...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Road to Careers (Part 3)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work in teams to write individual friendly letters to the readers of the Careerville News who have written to the Career Information Columnist requesting information about working in Careerville. They focus their friendly...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: On-Demand Informational Writing

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Lesson 7 focuses on building academic vocabulary and writing an explanatory letter with supported textual evidence. For the first five minutes of the instructional activity, the educator reminds the class of how to read and refer to the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geography A to Z: The Letter F

For Students 4th - 6th
The geography letter of the day is F! The class needs to determine the answer to each of the seven clues with a world location that starts with letter F. Wonderful for a daily warm up or as an exit-card activity.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geography A to Z: The Letters W,X,Y and Z

For Students 6th - 8th
Warm up the class with a fun geography quiz. They'll use the letters W, X, Y, and Z to answer seven geography-based questions. Y for Yangtze, Z  for Zimbabwe, or Y for Yugoslavia. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geography A to Z: Letter O

For Students 6th - 8th
The world is full of places that start with the letter O. It's true! Your class can use what they know about geography to answer seven curious questions related to world locations that all begin with letter O. Like Ohio, Ottowa, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geography A to Z : Letter H

For Students 4th - 6th
What starts with the letter H? A lot of things do! Including the names of seven different geographic locations around the globe. Learners use the clues to determine the answers, all beginning with the letter H.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geography A to Z: The Letter S

For Students 6th - 8th
The letter S is the clue learners need to answer each of the seven geography questions on the worksheet. They answer questions about African, Canadian, Middle Eastern, and US geography using locations that begin with the letter S.