Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Dear Santa, It's Me!"
For this lesson students will become familiar with a digital camera and will increase word processing and keyboarding skills by writing a friendly letter to Santa.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Bats, Friend or Foe. An Argument Writing Activity
Students will state an argument with evidence, for or against, bats being removed from their environment by writing a letter to the editor and citing evidence for your claim.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Creative Convincing
In this lesson, students will create a friendly letter taking on the persona and voice of a persuasive animal.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Smart Math and Writing
In this lesson plan, the poem "Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein, is used as the mentor text. Young scholars will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
Contains plans for five cross-curricular lessons that teach about geography, reading, and writing by having young scholars send postcards to relatives and asking them to send postcards back. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Unusual Friendly Letters: Persuasive Writing Techniques
In this lesson, students will use active voice in regards to persuasion. Lesson incorporates the A R.A.F.T. strategy: role, audience, format, topic.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: I Wanna What?
This lesson is centered on word choice and vocabulary and the book, I Wanna Iguana, by Karen Kaufman Orloff. Young students learn to grasp the difference between begging and persuading and apply this knowledge to their own persuasive texts.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Email Clarifying Questions
At the end of this activity, students will demonstrate the use of commas, clarifying questions, and a friendly letter format by sending an email. Email is part of student's lives, and it is part of the digital landscape they will need to...
Other
Teaching Heart: Fairy Tale Lessons & Ideas
Geared toward grades K-3--offers objectives, materials, procedures, discussion questions and evaluations. Online lesson plans for introducing and teaching basic literary criticism skills.