Letter Writing
Great Introductions to Letter Writing
Wayback Machine - P.S. Keep in Touch
http://pbskids.org/wayback/family/quiz/index.html
The American Presidency - Children's Letters to the Presidents
http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/5a2d.html
Grace Bedell Interview tells about her meeting with Lincoln after she
wrote to him.
http://wwwbeta.illinois.gov/PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=1&RecNum=1760
Letter to President Ford from Anthony Ferriera
Go to ARC Search and find document # 595452
http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/basic_search.jsp
ReviseWise Activity - If you were writing to J.K. Rowling
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/english/writing/13_act.shtml
Spy Letters of the American Revolution
http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/index-gallery.html
Lesson Plans for Letter Writing
What's the Difference? Beginning Writers Compare E-Mail with Letter Writing
Read Write Think for Grades K-2
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=299
Dear Librarian: Writing a Persuasive Letter
Read Write Think for Grades 3-5
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=875
I'm Gonna Sit Right Done and Write Someone a Letter
Ed Sitement for Grades 3-5
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=294
Genre Study of Letters with the Jolly Postman
Read Write Think for Grades 3-5
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=322
Who's Got Mail?
Read Write Think for Grades 3-5
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=85
Every Punctuation Mark Counts
Read Write Think for Grades 6-8
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=260
Audience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages
Read Write Think for Grades 6-8
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=159
E-Pals Around the World
Read Write Think for Grades 6-8
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=178
Reflective Letter Assignment
Read Write Think for Grades 6-8
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson33/reflectiveletter.pdf
Lesson Plans Using Letter Generator
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=5
Letter Generator from Read Write Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/
Write Letters to Make Things Happen
http://www.readwritethink.org/calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=572
Better Letters: Lesson Plans for Teaching Letter Writing from Education
World
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson281.shtml
Traci's List of Ten - Letter Writing
http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/letter.shtml
Written Response - Includes Letter Writing Ideas
http://www.lesley.edu/academic_centers/hood/currents/v1n1/bukowiecki.html
Good Advice - Letter Writing to Characters in Books
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/articles/good_advice_by_lisa_s_dryden.html
Letter Writing - A Great Way to Explore Whole Language
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3666/is_199505/ai_n8713293
Working Dog Webquest
http://wizard.4teachers.org/builder/worksheet.php3?ID=50913
Letter Writing Friendly Letter Writing Rubric
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=1068620&
In Search of Stellaluna's Family - Webquest
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/chavez/batquest/batquest.html
All About Letter Writing - Really Good Stuff
http://www.reallygoodstuff.com/pdfs/114444.pdf
Alpha's Pen Pals
http://www.thinkalphabits.com/images/teach_guide99.pdf
Compare Friendly, Business, and Persuasive Letter Attributes
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson322/LetterAttributes.pdf
Addresses
Write to the President of the United States
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/guide/#section1
Write to your favorite author
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/write.asp
Ask an Expert
http://www.k12science.org/askanexpert.html
Letters from the Past
National Postal Museum
http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/
National Postal Museum Activity Zone
http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/activity/8_activity.html
History of the U.S. Post Office
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmailus.htm#toc
Making Sense of Letters and Diaries (for older students)
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/letters/letters.pdf
Correspondence Between John and Abigail Adams
http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/letter/
Prairie Settlement
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html
An American Letter by Norwegian Immigrants
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/teachers/lessons/secondary/norwegian.asp
Laura's Letters to Children
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura/letter.html
The South Pole - Polar Regions Explorers
http://www.south-pole.com/homepage.html
In Their Own Words - Letters from the Gold Rush
http://www.glittering.com/letters/index.html
The Pony Express from Time for Kids
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,129630,00.html
Teaching with Documents - Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/jackie-robinson/index.html
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