Friendly
Letter Writing Unit Lesson Plan
Introduction:
The students will learn how to write a
friendly letter and why people send letters in real life. This module will
assess students’ abilities in following the writing conventions, and letter writing
format. Students will go through the process of prewriting, drafting, revising,
editing, and publishing. The goal is for the students to write a friendly
letter to the author of the chapter book they are currently reading, Mr.
Putter and Tabby Walk the Dog by Cynthia Rylant.
Objectives:
At the end of this module, you will be
able to:
- The student will be able to demonstrate proper use of
upper- and lower-case letters, and punctuations in 80% of the letter.
- The student will be able to write with appropriate word
spacing 80% of the letter.
3.
Students will be able to spell 80% of the
words correctly.
- The student will
write a friendly letter following 80% of the friendly letter format.
Readings:
The readings I included go over the
content the students are learning or have already learned through this class.
One is a book all the children have physically, and they will use this as
reference to writing the friendly letter. The other links are more resources
helpful for the students to remind them of previously learned content.
● Mr.
Putter and Tabby Walk the Dog by Simon James
○ All
the children have the book provided to them.
● Friendly
letter Anchor Chart by Firstieland
● Parts
of a Friendly Letter Label practice
○ https://www.liveworksheets.com/dg352757lq
● Punctuation
facts for kids
○ https://kids.kiddle.co/Punctuation
● Virtual
Word Wall by Casey Verdugo
○ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KOnYb7UH4AouOGamehM3RSlBY2O6-dU5SIBLOM1f3Lg/edit?usp=sharing
Videos:
These videos are going to be used during
instruction time. The students will have access to all videos on Canvas to use
when performing activities.
● Read
aloud of story Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James
○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0qNYNLxaiI
● Parts
of a Friendly Letter PlayPosit
● The
Sentence Song by the Scratch Garden
○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wrv_ZviMEc
● Parts
of a letter
○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUp3Xmf_Yjw
● Mr.
Putter and Tabby Walk the Dog Read Aloud by Cynthia Rylant
○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MNCK2k1Mm0&t=327s
Learning Activities
(Discussions, Quizzes, Assignment Submissions):
●
Activity 1: Writing a
Friendly Letter
● Guidelines:
The students will follow the writing process of prewriting, drafting, revising,
editing, and publishing to write a friendly letter to the author of the book
Mr. Putter and Tabby Walk the Dog, Cynthia Rylant. The students will use a
graphic organizer and their book to brainstorm what to write. The students will
use a friendly letter template to draft and revise on with help from the
teacher. In the editing step the students will use the student rubric to write
final draft and publish.
● Instruction:
Teacher will use the story Dear Mr. Blueberry to explain what a friendly letter
is and why people write letters.
○ History:
The teacher will explain that friendly letters are used for asking, planning,
informing, thanking, or apologizing with another person. The teacher will
explain how in the past when phones and computers did not exist people would
send letters to communicate.
○ Brainstorming:
The teacher will lead the students through the brainstorming process by
rereading Cynthia Rylant’s book and listing the students’ ideas of what to
write about. They will write their preferred ideas in the graphic organizer.
○ Drafting,
revising, and editing: the students will use the virtual word wall and the
graphic organizer to write a draft. Then, the students will have conference
with the teacher to revise their letter. After revising, the students will edit
their writing using their writing checklist, or the student rubric, which
reminds them to check spelling, handwriting, and grammar.
○ Publish:
After editing, the students will write their final draft in a letter template.
The students will peer review a partner’s letter to say what they like about
the letter.
● Rubric/
Grading: The grading will be based on the learning objectives. The grading
rubric will be out of 20 points. A sample of the rubric will be at the end of
the lesson plan.
●
Activity 2: Highlight
Writing Conventions
● Guideline:
This is a review of what the students have learned throughout the school year
and it serves as a reminder when they are writing. The teacher will reteach the
conventions of writing using flash cards from Quizlet; and the students will
practice by lesson by highlighting punctuations and upper-case letters in the
sample letters.
● Instruction:
The writing conventions the students will learn about are the following:
capitalizing the beginning of a sentence of proper noun, punctuation at the end
of a sentence, and spacing between words.
● Grading:
This will be an informal assessment using teacher observation and question and
answer techniques.
●
Activity 3: Parts of a Friendly Letter Quiz
● Guideline:
Through out the week the students will learn about the parts of a friendly
letter. Materials used to teach will be a PlayPosit video, Quizlet flash cards,
and the Pats of a Letter video. The teacher will also use the story Dear Mr.
Blueberry as appropriate letter references.
● Instruction:
The students will learn the five parts of a friendly letter. The five parts are
the following: heading, greeting, body, closing, and signature. Teacher will
introduce unit and engage the students by reading the book, Dear Mr. Blueberry
by Simon James. Followed by some post reading questions to create discussions:
-
What was Emily writing?
-
Who is Mr. Blueberry?
-
Why do you think she is
writing to Mr. Blueberry?
● Grading:
Students will use Google Slides to complete quiz; they will label the empty
parts of a letter. The quiz grade is calculated out of 100 points. The quiz has
5 parts each worth 20 points.
|
Objectives |
Developing |
Fair |
Good |
Excellent |
|
Writing Conventions: Student uses
punctuations and capital letters appropriately. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
Content/Idea: Student’s writing is on topic and uses details |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
Spelling: student follows
spelling patterns and writes 80% of sight words correctly. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
Grammar: Student writes in complete sentences and has
subject/ verb agreement |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
Writing Neatly: Student writes with proper spacing between words and
writing is legible. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Student Name:
__________________________________________________________
Teacher Writing Rubric
__ /
20 pts Grade:____ Percentage:___
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