Friendly Letter Writing Unit
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This complete friendly letter writing unit includes an engaging 6-lesson teaching PowerPoint + Google Slides version, with practice worksheets, task cards, writing tasks and reading comprehension activities. It also includes a flexible 1-2 week detailed lesson plan with interactive notebook pages, friendly letter writing templates, and an assessment.
The materials in this resource are literally no-prep and pre-planned saving you loads of time and making it easy to leave for a substitute teacher! Simply print the student pages and project the teaching slides. That's it!
This resource is ideal for your writing workshop and teaching students how to write a letter. This important life skill is also used when writing emails.
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Minilesson topics:
- Types of friendly letters
- Parts of a letter
- Punctuating a letter
- Capitalization in a letter
- Addressing an envelope
- Responding to a letter
- Purposes of friendly letters including:
-to inform
-to make a request
-to thank
-to invite
-to persuade
-to show love to friends or family
Inside the unit:
A 6-lesson teaching PowerPoint with interactive practice games
Google Slides version of the teaching slides
12 practice worksheets
Unit assessment
6 Interactive notebook reference pages
Reading comprehension passage with questions
8 Full page posters on the parts of a letter
16 Task cards & recording sheets
12 Writing activity task cards
8 Friendly letter writing templates in 2 handwriting line styles
Mailbox writing craft
Please see the preview for details on all materials included.
This unit will download in a .zip folder with 3 files inside: 1 PowerPoint and 2 PDFs. After you download and save the folder to your computer, right click on the file and then click ‘extract all’ to unzip the folder.
Happy teaching!
Linda Kamp
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