Letter Generator
Added: 20 Jul 2015
Contributor:
Lorna Healy
Resource type:
Primary Source
A colourful website for pupils to learn how to write a letter in a step by step guided approach. Pupils have the option of generating a formal business letter or an informal personal letter. A lovely idea is to ask pupils to write a letter to their future self before advancing to formal letters. Formal letters could be sent home to parents.
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- English
Strand: Writing
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- decide, after conferring with the teacher and others, who the audience for a piece of writing should be
- give sequence to ideas and events in stories
- learn to revise and re-draft writing
- regularly select his/her own topics for writing
- write in a legible joined script with confidence and fluency
- write regularly, and gradually extend the period over which a writing effort is sustained
Suggestions for use: Introduction to letter writing in the classroom both formal and informal. Set the letter writing as homework if pupils have access to computers at home. Students can then present their letters to the class. A nice idea is for pupils to write letters to their future self, or write letters to pupils in the year behind them advising them on the year ahead.
