There are a lot of parts to a letter. This checklist helps students ensure they have a complete and polished piece of correspondence. It includes the main parts of a letter; conventions; format; and tips for how to choose a closing.

Give your students the opportunity to put a friendly letter together!

This writing exercise integrates both the construction of a friendly letter and the labeling of standard letter components.

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

Help your students plan a well-supported persuasive letter with this planning document.

Young writers will write a persuasive letter in response to a formal letter.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

A letter is found in an attic. There's a mystery ahead! Your young author can use their imagination to create a fictional story based on this writing prompt.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

With this worksheet, friendly letters will be under construction!

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

Practice storytelling and illustration skills with this two-part adventure!

In this comprehensive two-page worksheet template, young writers will find frames for crafting thoughtful, compelling persuasive essays.

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Writers learn how to plan a well-written paragraph with this two-part worksheet.

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

This handy checklist helps your students identify all of the necessary components of an effective persuasive letter.

In this exercise, your young writers will write a persuasive letter to a person of their choice.

In this paragraph editing page, kids will have a great time editing this love letter from a Victorian gentleman.

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!