A little understanding can go a long way. After learning about difficulties that Palestinian youths face, students will write a letter to an official discussing these issues.

The purpose of the video lesson is to go over the steps of writing a friendly letter. The accompanying handout gives an example of a friendly letter, outlining the parts, as well as an opportunity to write a friendly letter.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review the components of a friendly letter. The accompanying handout includes a letter that students are asked to respond to in friendly letter format.

This resource provides students with an overview of how to write a friendly letter and the opportunity to create one of their own. Included:

YouTube video - How to Write a Friendly Letter
Handout - HO-9 - Friendly Letter Template

This resource includes 5 videos for each of 5 weeks to assist students in developing writing trait skills in the following areas: -Ideas -Organization -Word Choice -Sentence Fluency -Voice **Please note: Conventions is embedded throughout.

Students write persuasive letters to their librarian requesting that specific texts be added to the school library. As they work, students plan their arguments and outline their reasons and examples.

Draft letters ask students to think critically about their writing on a specific assignment before submitting their work to a reader. This lesson explains and provides models for the strategy.

With e-pals, students develop real-life writing and social experiences, learn the format of a friendly letter and parts of an e-mail message, and discover other cultures, languages, and geographic areas.

Students create a persuasive case calling for the adoption of a particular young adult literature title into their schools language arts curriculum by writing letters or speeches.

The Letter Generator is a useful tool for students to learn the parts of a business or friendly letter and then compose and print letters for both styles of correspondence.

Using their prior knowledge of books containing letters, students show their understanding of genre by rewriting a story and reflecting on how traditional stories differs from stories told in letters.

Children write and receive postcards from friends and family, and then chart where all those postcards come from on a classroom map.

Students use persuasive writing and an understanding of the characteristics of letters to the editor to compose effective letters to the editor on topics of interest to them.

Students learn that you dont have to raise your voice to raise a point. Writing a persuasive letter to your principal is a great way to get your opinions heard.

Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.

One of the most difficult aspects of writing is keeping audience in mind throughout the writing process. Developing lessons that support this strategy for writing is essential in the elementary classroom. This lesson supports first-grade students in learning about audience. Through interactive writing, students work together to create a genuine invitation letter for a group of their peers. In addition to the interactive writing experience, students work independently to create invitation letters for their families. Extension activities include conducting additional interactive writing experiences, reading books with samples of letters, and creating invitations at a learning center.

Have your students share their burning political concerns with their local MLA, Premier,
or Prime Minister in a letter writing activity that addresses both Social Studies and
English Language Arts outcomes. Listen to their animated conversations as they await a
reply!

Special edition! Students use ReadWriteThink tools to create magazines about prominent figures using a variety of writing genres and styles.