Curated OER
Words And the Images They Create
Students explore how the written languages of China and Japan evolved, creating representations of Chinese and Japanese Poetry. Emphasis is placed on small, cooperative learning groups.
Curated OER
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People
Fifth graders explore poems of African Americans. They research a famous African American, write a report, create a timeline of events in African American history, create a map of the New World, and research Molly Walsh. After...
Curated OER
The Shark Callers
Students engage in a layered curriculum do some of the following: Analysis of Andy and Kaleku's lives. Include their lives, family, culture, traditions, and the parallelism in each other's lives.
Curated OER
Mongolia Geography
Young scholars examine the geography and culture of Mongolia. Individually, they cut out cut-outs of animals to place on their maps and label the grasslands and desert areas. They locate major cities and rivers along with vegetation.
Curated OER
My Favorite Thing to Do
Students complete the questions to detail their favorite after school activities. In this after school activity lesson, students fill in the blanks using the word bank to detail information about their favorite after school activities....
Curated OER
English Exercises: Present Continuous-Advanced
In this present continuous learning exercise, students read about the usage of present continuous, then correctly fill in blanks in sentences. Links to additional resources and audio are included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Parts of a Friendly Letter
The teacher will use charts, worksheets, and websites to orient learners about the five parts of a friendly letter.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Learn to Write a Friendly Letter: Friendly Letter Creator
Featuring the five parts of a friendly letter students will create their own personalized letter with the Friendly Letter Creator.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Five Parts of a Friendly Letter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This colorful flipchart explains the essential parts of a friendly letter. A step by step example is presented and then students are given an opportunity to write an original letter following the format.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Writing Friendly Letters
This lesson teaches students the five parts of a friendly letter. Students will be able to write friendly letters utilizing the writing process. Students will visit various websites to learn more about writing friendly letters. Students...
Letter Writing Guide
How to Write a Friendly Letter
This site contains the purpose of friendly letter writing. In addition, the article discusses the elements of good friendly letter writing.
Other
Letters and Parts of a Letter Worksheets
This resource provides four worksheets that learners can use to review the parts of a friendly letter. Each activity addresses the need for commas in designated parts of a letter.
PBS
Arthur: Letter Writer Helper
This interactive site gives examples of how to write a letter, an email, a postcard, and a greeting card. It even explains how to address an envelope. As students roll their mouse over the letter it explains what each part is called and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Friendly Letter Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains the different parts of a friendly letter. It contains an example of a friendly letter and provides an opportunity to model friendly letter writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Parts of a Friendly Letter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches the five parts of the friendly letter and the correct punctuation of each part.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Genre Study of Letter With the Jolly Postman
In this lesson outline based on The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, students learn about parts of a letter, the different genres of mail, and letter attributes by studying the letters included in the book.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: E Pals Around the World
Contains plans for three lessons that teach about writing friendly letters and parts of e-mails by asking students to write to pen-pals around the world. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Dear Santa, It's Me!"
In this activity students will become familiar with a digital camera and will increase word processing and keyboarding skills by writing a friendly letter to Santa.
Quia
Quia: Dear Mr. Henshaw: Parts of a Friendly Letter
A fill-in-the-blank music game on percussion instruments. The student is able to check their answer after each of the 10 questions.
Quia
Quia: Homonym Madness
This Quia Pop-Up game is a proofreading exercise in which students see a part of a friendly letter and are asked to select the correct form and punctuation for it using the drop-down menu.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Email Clarifying Questions
At the end of this lesson, 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...
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Gold Mountain Webquest
At this site from the Schools of California Online Resources for Education, students will travel back in time as Chinese Immigrants in this detailed WebQuest. By using the resources and links given, students will file a job profile,...
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Eric Carle
What do you know about Eric Carle, the author? This Carol Hurst site highlights some interesting facts about this author's life and refers to some of his books.