Thank You Letters
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise compose and presenting letters thanking different members of the school community for their support and help in lessons and other areas of school life.
The class can explain and model how to format and structure a letter for a specific purpose using the matching vocabulary words and sentence structures.
Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise compose and presenting letters thanking different members of the school community for their support and help in lessons and other areas of school life
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and explain why they should thank different members of the school community, a shared reading text to describe how to structure and format letters for a specific purpose and a template to compose letters thanking members of the school community for their support in different areas of school life.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to compose letters thanking different members of the school community for their support.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise composing and publishing letters to different members in the school community for a range of functions and purposes. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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