Internet Pen Pals

Sixth graders are assigned a safe e-mail address and instructed how to use the e-mail account. A digital camera or scanner be used to create digital photographs of Students, and word-processing software be used to create the messages sent.

First graders study the postal system and letter writing. They exchange class letters with another class in a different area and become pen pals with residents in a local nursing home.

Second graders read various published friendly letters, write to pen-pals in another city and create a book of letters to Jenna, a new baby in our school community. They use a checklist and they proof read and self-corrected their work.

Fifth graders research and write a pen pal letter about the geography of a Canadian town. Students create a script for a phone call with their pen pal and perform it with a friend for the class.

Students acquire a pen pal in a foreign country and write letters at least twice a month throughout the year to exchange with them. At the end of the year, they write an essay that compares one important difference and one important...

Students write to a pen pal and learn about their lives. In this pen pal lesson, students learn about a person from another country. Students develop an understanding that they have many things in common with people from other parts of...

Sixth graders write e-mail messages to pen pals using a template file. In this pen pal lesson, 6th graders culminate a unit on writing friendly letters by designing a template using graphic art and a word processing program. They...

Young scholars read online information and identify relevant information about a particular dinosaur species, assume the personality of a specific dinosaur species, and write online "getting to know you" letters to other...

In this language skills worksheet, students read an article on Pen Pal Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions, 30 short...

Students participate in an intercultural E-mail exchange throughout a semester. They send newsletter to international penpals/keypals.