Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how to write letters that might be sent from elves working at the North Pole, a worksheet to select and record events and experiences to use as the content for their pen pal letters and a template to support writing letters that might be sent from elves working at the North Pole.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write letters that might have been sent from elves working at the North Pole.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and model how to format and structure letters correctly to and from different characters living at the North Pole. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.