Friendly Letter Writing Unit

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!

Friendly Letter Writing Activities

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.

Click here for a set of letter writing stationery papers with over 100 thematic pages.

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 more details and all materials included.