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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

S Letter Ideas

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in activities that start with the letter "S". They also expand their vocabulary.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

T Letter Ideas

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in activities that begin with the letter "T". They also expand their vocabulary.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

U Letter Ideas

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars participate in activities that begin with the letter "U". They also expand their vocabulary.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Q" Letter Ideas

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students participate in activities that begin with the letter q. They also expand their vocabulary.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"K" Letter Ideas

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice with the letter K and use the Internet to help them expand their usage of "K" words.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Friendly Letter

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write friendly letters. In this friendly letters lesson, students write a friendly letter on the given template after being given direct instruction on how to write a friendly letter.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

World Post Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this World Post Day worksheet, learners complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

No Way Out: Letters and Lessons of the Holocaust

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students read and discuss an online collection of actual letters and documents of the Holocaust era.
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Printables
Progressive Phonics

Short Vowel “A”

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Support your phonics instruction with this beginner reading book that focuses on the short vowel /a/. The book is divided into four chapters based on the word families at, ad, an, and am. Letters and words used are c, a, t, s, m, n, d,...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Department of Archives and History

A College Student's Perspective on WWI

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Some things remain the same, such as the world being on the brink of war, or college attendees writing home requesting money. As part of their research into events that led up to President Wilson's declaration of war on Germany, class...
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Activity
Curated OER

Trip to the Post Office

For Teachers Pre-K
Students explore the post office. In this writing lesson, students write a letter to a parent or themselves. Students take a field trip to the post office and mail their letter.
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Worksheet
Basic Handwriting for Kids

L is for Lamp Post: Letter Ll

For Students K - 1st
In this letter Ll activity, students study the stroke patterns for the capital and lowercase letter Ll. Students trace and then print both letters several times. Students finish by tracing and printing the word lamp post.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing a Friendly Letter

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students write a friendly letter using the four standard sentence. In this friendly letter lesson plan, students use correct sentence structure and punctuation in pairs.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Trace and Write Letter A

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
In these D'Nealian handwriting worksheets, students trace the alphabet upper and lowercase letters. Students then complete several coloring activities to help with letter recognition.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Scarlet Letter

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars design a model that replicates a scene from The Scarlet Letter. They design four greeting cards for the main characters to send to each other. Students create a poster that compares Hawthorne's scarlet letter to a modern...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Letters and Photos

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Young scholars practice using a new language by reading letters.  In this foreign language lesson plan, students read a fictional letter by a young person from the target language's country.  Young scholars read the letters separately,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Road to Careers (Part 3)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work in teams to write individual friendly letters to the readers of the Careerville News who have written to the Career Information Columnist requesting information about working in Careerville. They focus their friendly...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Message in a Bottle

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students acquire a pen pal in a foreign country and write letters at least twice a month throughout the year to exchange with them. At the end of the year, they write an essay that compares one important difference and one important...
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Dear Miss Breed

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
This compelling plan based on the letters in the book Dear Miss Breed engages readers in learning what it was like for Japanese Americans following the attacks at Pearl Harbor. After reading the letters, young scholars will partake in...
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App
Roy Winata

iWriteWords (Handwriting Game)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Give me a W! Give me an O! Give me a W! What does it spell? Wow! Teach youngsters how to write letters and numbers with colorful tracing activities that include encouraging audio and make writing enjoyable. Soon, they will be writing...
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Curated OER

Introduction to Abigail Adams

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Remember this lady! Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and the mother of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams, was much more than a wife and mother. This prolific letter writer is the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Where Do I Post Letters?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
ESL/ELL learners first must unscramble 11 English words that name types of businesses/offices found near a post office. They then locate these labels in a word search.
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Printables
Freeology

Cursive Letters

For Teachers K - 5th
Learning cursive is challenging for many young learners. Support your class with developing this skill using this printable series of upper and lower case cursive letters.
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Worksheet
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Humanities Texas

Primary Source Worksheet: General Washington, Letter Declaring Acceptance of the Command of the Armies of the United States

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Discover what influenced president George Washington's decision in his early career to command the United States army by analyzing his formal acceptance with this primary source analysis worksheet.