A tweet can only be 140 characters long, including spaces. Challenge class members to write a positive note to one or more of their peers in 140 characters or less. It is a great activity to give on Valentine's Day to upper elementary writers to reinforce sentence structure and syntax skills.

Concepts

friendly letters, valentine's day, friendship, motivation

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Brainstorm a list of positive words, as a class, before distributing
• Create a friendship and valentine-themed bulletin board with friendship tweets posted all over

Classroom Considerations

• Use the black and white worksheet if color ink is not available
• Can be used at the beginning or end of the school year as well

Pros

• Helps build community in the classroom
• Comes with four tweet strips on the page

Cons

• Does not have directions

Common Core

L.3.2.a L.3.3.a L.4.2.a L.4.3.a L.5.2.a L.5.3.a