PBS
Dear Pen Pal
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...
Avi Writer
Hard Gold: Teaching Guide
Designed for Hard Gold, a novel in Avi's I Witness series, this teaching guide includes a summary of the story and information about the writer as well as chapter-by-chapter vocabulary lists, text-based reading questions, activities,...
Curated OER
Internet: Writing Friendly Letters Via Email
Students view a Powerpoint presentation on writing and sending email. After examining a Website about the parts of a friendly letter, they compose and send their own letters via email. Teachers set up an email/pen pal account so...
Curated OER
National Thank You Month and Letter Writing
Improve writing skills while teaching students the importance of expressing gratitude.
Curated OER
The Gingerbread Friend Is Loose!
Students explore the story of the Gingerbread Man, and compare the story's neighbors and neighborhoods with those of their school. They bake Gingerbread Friends cookies, retell the story, take a neighborhood walk, and create a class book.
Curated OER
Writing: A Friendly Letter
Learners practice writing career oriented letters and filling out job applications. As a class, they review the proper ways to make citations and identify the difference between the various types of letter formats. They use peer editing...
Curated OER
American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
Students research how early colonists lived. They investigate late 17th century colonist's lives from Massachusetts and Delaware. Using their research, students write historical fiction in the form of friendly letters between the two...
Curated OER
Edit a Friendly Letter
In this friendly letter editing worksheet, students read a letter to "Miss Green," looking for and correcting all errors found in the body, salutation, closing and address of the letter.
Starfall
Georges Seurat
In this language arts activity, learners write a friendly letter to Georges Seurat and tell him whether or not they like his paintings. It is unclear what story this pertains to; prior knowledge of the art of Georges Seurat is assumed.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Family and Friends: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)
Family and Friends is the theme of a unit offering extra support lessons. Follow each lesson plan's teach, blend, guided practice or practice/apply routine to reinforce concepts such as clusters, responding to reading, drawing...
Scholastic
Dear Miss Breed
This compelling plan based on the letters in the book Dear Miss Breed engages readers in learning what it was like for Japanese Americans following the attacks at Pearl Harbor. After reading the letters, young scholars will partake in...
Curated OER
Night: Unsent Letters Writing Strategy
As part of their study of Elie Wiesel's Night, individuals assume the voice of an Auschwitz survivor and craft a letter to a former SS officer who worked at the camp and claims he is not guilty of any crime.
Curated OER
Letter B: Alphabet Fun!
In this letter B worksheet, students trace the upper and lower case letter B and draw a picture of something that starts with that letter. Students trace each letter 1 time.
Curated OER
Letter C: Alphabet Fun!
In this letter C instructional activity, students trace the upper and lower case letter C and draw a picture that starts with N. Students trace each letter 1 time.
Curated OER
Letter D: Alphabet Fun!
In this letter D instructional activity, learners trace the upper and lower case letter D and draw a picture of something beginning with the letter D. Students trace the letters 1 time each.
Curated OER
Letter E: Alphabet Fun!
In this letter E activity, students trace the upper and lower case letter E and draw a picture of something starting with E. Students trace each letter 1 time.
Curated OER
Letter F: Alphabet Fun!
In this letter F worksheet, students trace the upper and lower case letter F and draw a picture that starts with N. Students trace each letter 1 time.
Curated OER
Letter G: Alphabet Fun!
In this Letter G worksheet, students trace the upper and lower case letter G and draw a picture of something that starts with G. Students trace each G 1 time each.
Novelinks
Walk Two Moons: Unsent Letter
Take a journey with your class as they explore the different settings from Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. Middle schoolers write postcards in first person as if they were the characters of the story.
Scholastic
Wrapping Up the School Year
Students complete a variety of writing and yearbook activities to complete the school year. They write a letter to the student that will sit in their desk the next school year, and a letter to their next year's teacher. As a culminating...
Ed Galaxy
Postcard Template
Wish you were here! Have kids express their salutations and warm wishes with postcards. The worksheet provides two postcard templates for kids to address, sign, and illustrate.
Curated OER
Crystal Set & Letter Writing
Young scholars comprehend the details necessary to create a complete set of directions. They compile their directions into a friendly letter format. Students and teachers are able to follow written directions to complete a task.
Curated OER
Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam A Study of the Vietnam Era
Students examine letters that US service people wrote to their family and friends while they served in Vietnam. They examine the daily hardships and the role of medical personnel and helicopters. They write letters in response to those...