This Skillswise site focuses on letter writing. Included is a video about why it is important to learn about letter writing, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from...

This lesson focuses on improving students' persuasive writing skills. Students reseach baseball and then write a persuasive essay to convince the baseball coach that a trip the Baseball Hall in Fame would be beneficial to the members of...

This interesting site has a variety of activities and games to use in the classroom or at home to teach letter recognition, phonics, and beginning writing skills. Learn about individual letters at the Alphabet Soup Cafe, create an...

This invaluable site helps instructors teach students how to handwrite each letter of the alphabet. It includes the amsti sequence to introduce letters, followed by fluency-building activities and accuracy-building activities. Additional...

The BBC offers quick (bitesize) activities, revision options, and quizzes on a variety of writing skills, covering writing arguments, writing factual documents, and writing stories.

Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.

Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...

This resource offers 11 exercises with variety of everyday reading passages such as letters, recipes, classified ads, etc. Students read the passage and answer multiple choice questions about its purpose.

Have you ever wondered about the purpose of such small words as a, this, the and the like? These words are articles, determiners and quantifiers that precede and modify nouns.

Check out this comprehensive website featuring ideas for teaching writing based on the six trait analytic writing model.

For this lesson students improve their ability to spell sight words and decodable text. Students use a slideshow presentation to practice spelling frequently-used words. This lesson will improve students' writing skills.

Discover more about personal letter writing when you use this informative site from the Adult Literacy Media Alliance. This site gives you tips on how to set the tone of your personal letter. This is an excellent resource for all ages.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text in which a boy named Alex writes a letter to his family to tell them about his experiences at summer camp. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...

This reading game focuses on beginning capital letters. Young readers drag a looking glass to where a capital letter needs to be, and the letter becomes capitalized. Then they drag a puzzle piece to Zara's dream cloud. The game continues...

Great place to go for help teaching basic manuscript writing skills. Printable resources available include blank lined paper of various sizes, alphabet and number tracing guides, "make your own" traceable worksheets, and more. There's...

In this lesson plan students will demonstrate reading comprehension and writing skills by writing a letter to a character in a story. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above, but could be adapted for younger grades.

The mandate of Movement for Canadian Literacy is to promote basic literacy among all Canadians. A variety or newsletters and reports can be downloaded. The learner area has some tutorials on topics such as how to write a letter and how...

A handout listing an inventory of skills that may be included in a resume or cover letter.

Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson; young scholars use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns.

In this exercise, students are read sentences with boxes in which to correct a capitalization error. They need to determine if the word is correctly capitalized and type a "C" in the box for correct or an "I" in the box for incorrect.

Watch Spinner the Spider draw the letters of the alphabet, both upper and lower case.

With this printout, simply choose a one-word topic, write each letter of the word vertically in all capital letters, and then write words or phrases that describe the topic and begin with each letter of the word. It could be adapted for...

Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of correctly punctuating letters with commas. Immediate feedback is given.

Students will use business letters and email to recruit professional members for the Career Technical Student Organization (CTSO) using the Chamber of Commerce member listing. This lesson plan is targeted toward Future Business Leaders...