Pen Pal Letter Writing Activity Kit - Complete Resources for Writing Letters

This Pen Pal Letter Writing Activity Kit  includes a number of resources to help you get a pen pal exchange started. It includes various activity sheets that teach your students the important aspects of a letter, and the first 5 letter ideas for your class exchange. 

A great way to promote creative writing skills and teach social concepts. 

Lessons Include:

1. Printable Permission Slip
2. Learning The Parts Of A Letter
3. Getting To Know You Letter
4. What I Look Like Letter
5. Where I Live Letter
6. Questions For your Pen Pal Letter
7. Templates For Open Ended Letter Writing

How to use this is the classroom:

• As a whole class, discuss what a pen pal is.
  
  
• Decide as a group if you wish to exchange letters within the same country or different countries.
  
  
• We suggest posting in the various teaching groups on Facebook to find another teacher willing to participate in the pen pal exchange with you.
  
  
• With your students, discuss the basic layout to a letter using the templates provided in the pack.
  
  
• Students can then also complete different activity sheets included about themselves and then these can be either emailed or mailed to the pen pal class.
  
  
• We suggest monitoring all interactions between pen pals.