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Teach 1st and 2nd graders how to write a friendly letter, while learning to be thoughtful. With this 5-day lesson plan, encourage social skills and build character, while teaching letter writing. Check out the ***video preview*** to see the variety of components in this resource. Is writing a friendly letter a lost art? It sure seems that way! But to me, letter writing is an important skill to learn, because it involves learning how to put yourself "in other people's shoes." This resource includes: • Graphic organizers • 12 Months of the Year worksheet • Writing Dates worksheet • Being Thoughtful worksheet • Answer Keys • Rubric • Sample letters and revisions • Student Checklists • Writing Paper • Envelope • Pocket Chart Sentence Strips • Table Top Sentence Strips • Posters The thoughtful letter has these parts: •heading •greeting •body •closing •signature The body or main message of the letter includes: •a thoughtful question about another person •something you think the person might want to know about you •a hope or wish for the other person After planning, writing a 1st draft, revising, and writing a final draft, the students share the letters with each other. Thanks for checking out my product! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You can check out my related resources by going to the custom categories: a Writing Writing Process 1st grade 2nd grade Graphic Organizers Posters Worksheets +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Customer Tips How to get TpT credit to use toward future purchases 1. Go to your My Purchases page. 2. Click on Provide Feedback for the item. 3. Give a rating and a comment—even a short one. Each time you leave feedback, TpT gives you Feedback Credits that you can apply toward future purchases. It takes just a few seconds! Be the first to learn about my new freebies, discounts, and products! To become a Follower, click HERE. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contact me! I welcome you to leave a message or question for me at my TpT store, Many Roads to Reading, or by email. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Are you planning to write or send messages to you family and friends? Here are the friendly letter formats that you can download. 100% free.
This is a 4 point rubric to assess friendly letters. This rubric assesses letter writing conventions, spelling, capitalization/punctuation and organization/purpose. Students may also use it as a guide when writing their friendly letters. For smaller rubrics, print 4 or more to a page.
Teach your students the 5 parts of a friendly letter - the date, greeting, body, closing and signature, that can help them write letters.
If your second grade students are working on writing friendly letters, you may be looking for a few tools to get started. Here are some resources to help.
When getting in touch with a friend, most people will opt for a text or a social media message. Nothing beats a good, old-fashioned friendly letter, however. This lesson will introduce you how to w...
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Ideas for how to teach a Friendly Letter Writing unit. Get examples of a letter anchor chart, writing templates, and friendly letter prompts.
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Will Technology Take Over? They say that writing letters will eventually be a lost art and soon everything will be done with technology. I don't know about you, but this makes me sad. I think that letter writing is both important and valuable, and who doesn't love receiving a handwritten note in the mail. But
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I love teaching letter writing in the classroom. Students love writing friendly letters to each other. I've got 6 ideas for making teaching letter writing easier for you including sample anchor charts, picture book ideas and extension activities.
Discover wonderful lists of letter ideas to inspire young writers to fall in love with letter writing. We have fun, playful, and friendly letter ideas for you!
This rubric helps guide students as they work toward mastery of writing a friendly letter. There are many ways you can use it, but here is what we did in our class: Together, we read several fairy tales. The students were then asked to choose which character was their favorite. They wrote friendly letters to their character, giving their opinion about why they were the student's favorite. The skills covered include writing an opinion, writing complete sentences, and using capitals and end marks correctly.
With Valentine's Day right around the corner, students are getting ready to write or make cards for their friends and family. This is a great time to introduce or practice the skill of how to write a friendly letter. I've put together a Valentine-themed writing center activity that walks students through the process of
You basically can write anything on a blank letter template. For instance, you can write from the most informal, personal, and formal. For the informal one, you can write a reminder to your friend or colleague.
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This is a set to help you teach letter writing to your students. Included in this set is a mini-poster labeling the five parts of a letter. There is a writing assignment which asks students to write a letter to someone about a challenge they have overcome. There is a graphic organizer to help plan the writing and a rubric to grade the final letter. I have included an exemplar letter so that students can see what is expected of them. There are also two letter templates included for your students' final drafts. I designed this to meet 2nd grade Common Core Standards but you can adapt it to meet your grade level. CCSS Standards Addressed: L.2.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. L.2.2b Use commas in greetings and closings of letters W.2.3 Write narratives in which they recount a well elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
I hope you have recovered after Thanksgiving and are settling back in to your routine at school! My husband, Josh, and I had a wonderful visit to Indianapolis to spend time with his family. Since they live 500 miles away, our visits only happen a couple of times a year, but we had no trouble packing in a lot! We saw our youngest nephew play basketball and then Josh's brother coached a high school game later that same night. Trips to three, yes - three, different malls and a stop to Lakeshore Learning! Our closest Lakeshore store is in Washington, DC, which is still several hours away, so I took advantage that we were nearby and got everything on my list (and a few extras!). The trip went too quickly and we look forward to going back this summer. Looking at the calendar before Thanksgiving, we realized that we have four long weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks. We are trying to plan as many fun things as we can, while still teaching everything that we need to! This week we are working on writing friendly letters. We have talked about the parts of a letter and looked at our message everyday. The children have picked up very quickly on these terms! Today we wrote a letter to our principal. I wanted them to think about 2 questions they want to ask and 2 things to tell her. My favorite question to ask was "How old are you?" This came from my birthday boy! I had to explain that it is not polite to ask an adult - especially a lady - how old she is! We all signed the letter we finished and took it up to the office. Unfortunately, the principal was in a meeting and we couldn't give it to her in person. She found me after school and is writing a letter back to them! The kiddos will see it in the morning! here's our letter to Mrs. Moore Here's my mini-packet for letters. Enjoy! Click HERE to download. Happy writing to Santa!
Writing letters is a huge staple in our first grade classroom, not to mention one of the most FUN activities we do! This year, I have really focused on upping the fun factor in my classroom–not to say it hasn’t ALWAYS been fun ;). I am really into creating songs…
Discover wonderful lists of letter ideas to inspire young writers to fall in love with letter writing. We have fun, playful, and friendly letter ideas for you!
Welcome to the only Friendly Letter 2nd Grade Writing Unit you'll ever need! The guided and scaffolded slides walk you and the students through each element of letter writing. The Friendly Letter 2nd Grade Writing Unit includes Parts of a Letter Lessons, hands-on activities, and even a cute mailbox letter-writing craft. The Friendly Letter 2nd Grade Writing Unit is also perfect for teaching your students how to write a personal narrative and the proper letter-writing structure. By the end of the Letter Writing Unit, your students will write a letter to a friend, sharing when they've felt happy, sad, or maybe even scared. This is an excellent activity for any time of year, but it is especially perfect for getting to know your students at the beginning of the school year. ✅ The Friendly Letter 2nd Grade Writing Unit Includes: Engaging Lessons to keep your students excited about writing Full-color Lessons with black and white handouts Student Practice Pages in B&W (Print Friendly) Classroom Display Posters Rubrics 2nd-3rdth Grade Writing-Easily adapted up or down to your outcome expectations Meets Common Core- Narrative Writing PowerPoint lessons classroom posters activities games writing craft. ⭐ The Friendly Letter Writing Activities and Games: Color Code the Text Brainstorming & Graphic Organizers Note-Taking Activity/Coloring Mat Match Up Memory Game Connect Three Choice Board Writing-Craft to display student writing There's no better way to engage students in letter writing than through the real-life experience of Pen Pals! This Letter Writing Unit will be your go-to resource for the pen pal experience. ✅ Check the BUNDLE! Friendly Letter Writing Unit for Pen Pals BUNDLE ❤️ Related Top Resources:) Writing Complete Sentences Activities BUNDLE Paragraph of the Week Worksheets BUNDLE Writing Prompts & Craft Activities BUNDLE The Friendly Letter Writing Unit supports and engages students in the letter-writing process through hands-on activities and games. Your students will be letter-writing experts and begging for more. Thank you for your interest! Melissa with The Teaching Q
I'm Here, I'm Here! The whistle has not been blown...nope, the whistle my colleagues provided as a practical joke {On me - I deserve it, one day I'll tell you the poop story} for my hubby has not been blown...not even once. Why? Because I didn't give it to him, that's why. Do you think I'm crazy?!? Really, he's been a wonderful patient and I've gladly been helping him out. He feels WORLD'S better...still slow moving, but he'll heal quickly...cuz that's how he rolls! {Smile} Another thing that makes me smile is our school "Post Office". Our third graders go to our State Capitol each year. To earn money to defray the cost of transportation the kids, teachers and parents run a school-wide post office. The third graders make "stamps" and the rest of the school can purchase them {Can't remember how much - but they do pay real money for them...obviously, because this is how they raise the money}. Our postal carriers are our third grade students and parents/students help sell stamps on certain days during the week. Teachers use whatever they want as mailboxes - I use this: I definitely use the excitement surrounding the post office to teach my kiddos how to write a friendly letter. Talk about a real-life application giving the kids a reason and motivation for learning how to write one! Before we even start the post office or I start teaching how to write a friendly letter, I put the mailbox outside of our classroom without telling them. Oh my goodness...the thrill of it all. That first kid who notices it is beside themself...either because they remember it from Kindergarten or because they can't believe a real life mailbox is sitting outside of our classroom and they wonder what it's all about. I let the kids talk about it and wonder about it for a few days. When they either ask about it or check to see if they are correct in their assumptions I just smile. They know or they think they know and they can't wait!!!! Then, one day they walk past the mailbox and I nonchalantly ask one of them to "check the mail". I remember as a kid, back when people still WROTE letters or SENT cards how excited I was when I saw the mailman {Mr. Brown...yeah, growing up we always had the same mailman and he drove his own car down those rural routes} pull away. I'd run out to the mailbox hoping there was something in there for me!!! I send the first letter to my kids {I don't have a copy of that at home} explaining how important it is to know how to write a letter and that they are not only going to learn how to write a friendly letter but they are also going to SEND them AND receive them from anybody and everybody around the school....gasps and cheers ensue! I have lots of cute templates for the kids to write on, and I'll post those once we get hot and heavy into the process. For now, I have two songs to share with you that I use early on and throughout the unit. Click on pictures to download your own Clipart: Scrappin' Doodles {the pencil} Here's what our third grade teachers created so we know each zip code for every staff member in our building. {I removed names} I use the friendly letter songs to send home, put in their writing folders, and post by our work on writing materials. I also put them on chart paper. This is my first year having an interactive white board {Mimio} so I'm going to search Mimio Connect to see if there are any activities that can be used for learning about friendly letters {Like label the parts - and, if I can't find one, I might try to brave it out and create one myself} Can't wait to add that component to our mini-unit. And... I received this award {Created by Mrs. Lamb!}... From Sara over at Kindergarten is a Hoot and Kelley at Buggy for Second Grade. Funny thing is, they think I'm their favorite follower..but truth be told, THEY are some of MY favorite followers. Think it would be against the "rules" to give this award right back to them?!?! Thank you girls for thinking of me. You really made my day!!!!! Oh goodness...have I ever told you how bad I am at making decisions outside of the classroom? I think it's because we make, like, 500 million decisions each and every day...you should see hubby {who is also a teacher} and I try to decide on what we'll have for dinner or what restaurant we'll go to...oh, it's brutal. Hmmm... After much hemmin' and hawin'....I must say two of my favorite followers {I really love you all - I mean, you follow ME...how could I not?!?!?} are: Stacy @ 2nd Grade Paradise Because she's always so appreciative, funny, light-hearted, and HELPFUL to me!!!! That, and she's sure to post a comment which makes me a happy girl! Another person who posts the sweetest comments and thinks I'm a good bloggy friend to HER {Little does she know that SHE'S an awesome bloggy friend to ME}...and who can't pass some love on to a fellow Michigan Girl!!!!!? Amy @ The Resource(ful) Room But, really, thanks to everyone who follows my blog...it really is pretty darn cool! Holly
E-mail is here to stay, but that doesn't mean kids shouldn't learn how to write a friendly letter.Teach your child how to write a letter to a friend.
When I taught fourth grade, we were departmentalized and I taught writing to all students. Letter writing was one piece of writing that most of my students enjoyed. Here are some ideas for teaching the parts of a friendly letter, along with ten meaningful ways to easily incorporate letter writing into your curriculum! Parts of
Letter writing plays a crucial role in our daily lives. We communicate our feelings, ideas, thoughts and facts through letter writing. This ...
I love teaching letter writing in the classroom. Students love writing friendly letters to each other. I've got 6 ideas for making teaching letter writing easier for you including sample anchor charts, picture book ideas and extension activities.
Writing friendly letters can be so much fun. In this post, mentor texts and teaching ideas for letter writing are shared.
These eight pages include many different worksheets/ activities to teach children about writing a friendly letter! 1. Example friendly letter with the parts of the letter labeled 2. Example friendly letter, but the parts of the letter are blank so students can label it correctly 3. Vocabulary cards...
If you are looking for ideas in the editing step of the writing process, you are in the right place! This post will provide ways to teach and break down different editing techniques. Although it is part of a series of 30+ writing mini lessons on narrative writing, it