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Writing Friendly Letters

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write a friendly letter. In this lesson on letter writing, 2nd graders sing a song to teach them the five parts of a friendly letter. Then, they use what they have learned to write a descriptive letter to their parents.
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Lesson Two: Writing Letters in Code

For Teachers Pre-K - 9th
Combine your friendly letter lesson, grammar lesson, and technology lesson with this fun activity! Young writers compose letters to friends, and then convert the text to Webdings font. Their friends then decode the letter based on a key....
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Thomas Day's Letter to His Daughter, Mary Ann

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Why is a letter a better way to learn about a person than a different primary source? Explore Thomas Day's ideas and advice to his daughter in a letter from 1851, which details the struggles of the American South before the Civil War....
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Friendly Letter Writing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write a friendly letter. In this writing lesson plan, 3rd graders consider audience, purpose, labeling, salutation, body, closing, and ending. Some excellent examples of friendly letters are shared with the students in a...
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A Friendly Letter in December

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Celebrate December’s Write to a Friend month by having your students write friendly letters.
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Friendly Letter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work with partner to look at and read pen pal letters. Students identify, highlight, and discuss five parts of friendly letter, including heading, salutation, body, closing, and signature, and write their own friendly letters.
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Father Knows Best, Write a Father's Day Letter

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write a Father's Day letter. In this friendly letter writing lesson, students brainstorm a list of parent responsibilities, then write three specific ways their fathers care for them. Students share learning experiences they...
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Giving Thanks for Food and Farms

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Sarah Stewart’s The Gardener and Food from Farms by Nancy Dickmann display the importance of community farms. After reading these short picture books, class members draw connections between farms and the food we eat each day. As a...
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Thank You Letters

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
An important step in the job search process is sending a thank you note to any professional that has been of help. First, pupils discuss the etiquette of thank you notes, then draft a practice letter.
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Sincerely Yours

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners write a friendly letter. They write a friendly letter to author, Cynthia Rylant, after reading a number of her books, and watch a presentation by the teacher that describes how to write the letter. They word process their...
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Letters from the Road

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine and differentiate between rural, urban, and suburban communities. They describe their local areas, view and discuss the images on the West Virginia Quarter, and write a friendly letter describing a camping trip.
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Dear Fifth Grader

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write a friendly letter to 5th graders welcoming incoming students. In this writing lesson, students identify the five parts of a friendly letter, write a friendly letter to a current 5th grader, and perform a peer review and...
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Writing Lowercase Letters

For Students 3rd - 5th
Break down lowercase cursive letters with this packet of materials. Learners copy a cursive alphabet chart, practice letters grouped by starting strokes, work on joining letters, and complete several other activities using...
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Book Letters

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students study language. In this writing lesson plan, students listen to a story and then compose a friendly letter, about the  book, to a friend. They work independently to compose their letter depicting what happened in the story,...
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Friendly Letter Format

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Westward Ho worksheet, students write a friendly letter and fill out a cause and effect chart for the story Westward Ho. Students complete 7 rows in the chart.
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Dog Gone

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners write friendly letters. For this language arts lesson, students discuss the parts of a friendly letter. Learners compose a friendly letter. Students share their letters with small groups and draw a picture to go with the letter.
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Dear Pen Pal

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
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...
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Letter to Self: A Personal Time Capsule

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify the parts of a friendly letter and write a letter to themselves as a part of a time capsule. In this letter writing lesson, 7th graders identify the five parts of a letter and write a friendly letter to...
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Letter Error Correction

For Students 1st
In this editing worksheet, 1st graders read, edit and correct a letter written with both present simple and present continuous tenses from Jane to her pen-friend in Australia.
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Edit a Friendly Letter

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this friendly letter editing worksheet, students read a letter to "Miss Green," looking for and correcting all errors found in the body, salutation, closing and address of the letter.
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The Letter Ee

For Students K - 1st
In this letter E e worksheet, students follow the numbers and arrows, to form the capital and lower case letters E and e and identify the /e/ sound in elephant. The students trace and print the letters E and e and the word elephant to...
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Friendly Fish: The Letter F

For Students K - 1st
In this letter f worksheet, students color the f's they find in a picture, then color other letters a different color. Students count the letter f's and practice saying and writing the letter.
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Handwriting Skills: Tracing Letters and Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this handwriting skills worksheet, students trace over the letters in each sentence and then write each word on the lines provided. Students draw a picture for each sentence in the boxes at the bottom of the worksheet.
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Letter Bb

For Teachers K - 1st
In this letter B worksheet, students color and cut out pictures that begin the b sound and paste them inside a large B shape. Students cut and paste sixteen b sound pictures.