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July 6th Writing Prompt

For Students 5th - 8th
In this daily writing prompt learning exercise, students learn that on July 6th the first picture postcard was made. Students describe a postcard they would design.
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May 2nd Writing Prompt

For Students 5th - 8th
In this daily writing prompt worksheet, students learn that the first week in May is National Postcard Week. Students create their own postcard to celebrate the week.
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Sharing Your Vacation-Send a Postcard!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate how to write about travel experiences. In this narrative writing lesson plan, students discuss what the purpose of postcards are and any personal experiences they have had with writing a postcard. Students observe...
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Postcards from Somewhere

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students correspond with e-pals about their community. In this cross curriculum geography, technology, and literacy lesson, students complete a postcard webquest about their home location including local photographs. Students e-mail...
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May Writing Ideas

For Students 4th - 6th
In this writing instructional activity, students explore and discover a variety of ways to help make writing more interesting and creative.
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Writing in Note Form

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Taking notes is the topic today. Kids learn why notes are taken, when they are useful, and how to pick out the most important information to make their notes functional. Several interesting examples of various note forms are shown, along...
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The Postcard

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students listen to the book "Kate on the Coast" and plot her journey on a map. Then they decorate, address, and write a message on a postcard. They discuss where the postcards are being sent and plot the destinations on map.
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Personalized Postcards

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create and send postcards to friends and family members. Using actual photographs, they write a rough draft and final draft of a paragraph and print it out to glue onto a postcard template to mail to their friend or...
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Creating a Loyalist Postcard

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research a Loyalist and create their postcards. Specific Expectations.
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Awesome Adjectives Postcards!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a postcard by illustrating a place they would like to visit and using ten adjectives in a short message describing the pictures.
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Loyalist Postcards Research

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars research the story of a Canadian Loyalist and complete an organizer using the research. They create a Loyalist postcard using historical imagination.
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Dear Mrs. LaRue; Letter Writing

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars listen to the story about  a naughty dog who writes to his owner in letter form. In this writing a letter lesson, students pretend to write to a character in the story and practice their literacy skills. Young scholars...
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Descriptive Prompt: Precise Language

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Incorporate sensory details into a piece of descriptive writing. First, elementary and middle schoolers improve a piece of writing by using precise, vivid language, as well as appropriate word choice. They then listen to a variety of...
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Geography Postcard Podcasting

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Pupils complete a geography postcard activity using Podcasting. In this geography lesson, students research landforms and climates of various U.S. and Canadian regions. Pupils write a description of their travles in the form of a...
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Postcards

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use photography to make postcards. In this photography lesson, students create postcards using a photograph. They add additional drawings to the postcard. Students address the postcard and include a note on the back detailing:...
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Writing Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders will create a postcard in order to improve reading and writing skills. They will track the pretend progress of a postcard to a destination. The learner will access the resource of the post office and realize its importance...
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Writing Bug

For Students 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students write a response to the following prompt: "You are on a vacation at the one place you've always dreamed of visiting! Write a postcard to your best friend."
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Writing Postcards

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this writing skills worksheet, students imagine they are visiting Antarctica and write a postcard home about their experiences. Students use the picture for help.
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Postcard to Mom

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research the stages a lobster larvae passes through. in this lobster lesson, students pretend as if they are the lobster larvae and write a postcard to their lobster mother describing the changes they have been through. There...
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Addressing Letters

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Are you working on a letter writing unit? Use this worksheet on addressing letters to help your second graders' letters get to the right place! Each section helps students write out the address, return address, and message of a postcard....
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Exploring Regions of Our World

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Examine how climate and landforms affect plants and animals that live in particular areas. Discover that these same factors affect peoples' homes, jobs, and recreational activities. Pupils research ecosystems and biomes, and then write...
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Dear Pen Pal

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Explore cultures from around the world with an engaging pen pal resource. Through a series of classroom activities and written correspondence, children learn about the favoritec pastimes, schooling, geography, and weather that is...
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Character Traits in Fables

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Combining art, music, dance, and reading comprehension, this lesson is geared to reach all ability levels. After reading a variety of fables and discussing story elements and character traits, class members select a moral to use as the...
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Looking at Landscapes Lesson 3: Postcards

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students view various landscape paintings, then choose one of the landscapes they have seen that represents a place they would like to go on vacation. They simulate being on a vacation at their chosen location and write postcards to...

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