Personalized Pen Pals

Students write a letter to a pen pal about the book they read 1,000 Cranes in Hiroshima. In this writing lesson plan, students write about the conflicts and events that occurred in the book.

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...

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

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...

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

Students discover the benefits of writing letters to multigenerational pen pals.  In this pen pal lesson, students identify a need for communication among the generations.  Students begin a pen pal program with the elders in the community. 

Students discuss as a class the items they value and why. They read an article about the popularity of cellphones in Iraq. In groups, they work together to create a guide to their culture to share with others visiting their classroom....

Take your middle schoolers back to the first Thanksgiving with an engaging cross-curricular unit that ties together topics in social studies and ELA. While learning about he settlement at Plymouth young scholars participate in a series...

Make writing fun by writing to a pen-pal! In small groups, learners describe their friends with precise adjectives. They can then use these adjectives to form letters. Designed for an ESL classroom, this could be used with young writers...