Lesson Plan of Friendly Letter Writing

Lesson Plan of Friendly Letter Writing

Subject English

Grade V

Students` Learning Outcomes

• • Demonstrate the use of conversations letter writing:
  • Address & Date
  • Greetings
  • Main Body
  • Closing

Information for Teachers

• An informal letter has five parts:
• The Heading includes the return address and the date, for example:
  • • 411 New Satellite Town

        Baghdad –ul-Jadeed Bahawalpur

         22 Jun 2022.

• The Greeting or salutations means “Hello”/ Assalam-o-Alikum, Dear Amin, (All of the words used for greetings usually start with capital letters).
• The Body has the message of the letter.
• Closing means “Goodbye”, your friend, etc. Capitalize the first letter of the first word in the closing.
• In Signature write your name.
• An informal letter has five parts.
• In informal letters, day to day language is used.
• In formal letters, contractions can be used.
• Notes and letters are usually written for invitations, sending reminders, saying thanks, asking permission, wishing get well soon, etc.

• While teaching the lesson, the teacher should also consult the textbook.

Material / Resources

Writing board, chalk/marker, duster, picture in the end of the lesson

Introduction

• Show the attached picture of “Parts of a Friendly Letter” to the students and ask them to tell what they can see in the picture.
• Ask them to tell the different parts of the letter they have seen in the picture.
• Introduce the parts of a letter to the students with the help of the picture.
• The heading includes the return address and the date for example:

411 New Satellite Town

Baghdad –ul-Jadeed Bahawalpur

22 Jun

• The Greeting or salutations means “Hello”/ Assalam-o-Alikum, Dear Amin, (All of the words used for greetings usually start with capital letters).
• The Body has the message of the letter.
• Closing means “Goodbye”, your friend, etc. Capitalize the first letter of the first word in the closing.
• In Signature write your name

Development

Activity 1

• Write the following letter on the writing board and ask the students to copy.
• Ask the students to work in pairs and point out the parts of the following letter with Heading, Greeting, Body, Closing, and Signature.
• Monitor and help the students.

Activity 2

• Draw the following letter template on the writing board and ask the students to copy.
• Write the letter in jumbled order and ask the students to write the letter in a proper way.
• Tell them to rewrite the letter by using appropriate capitalization and punctuation.
• Monitor and help the students.

Letter in Jumbled Order

Sum up / Conclusion

• Ask the students to tell the conventions of letter writing.
• The heading has the return address and the date.
• The greeting says “Hello” to the reader. Usually all the starting letters of words in the greeting are capitalized.
• The body is the message you want to send the reader.
• The closing says “Goodbye” to the reader. Only capitalize the first letter of the word of the closing and it ends with a comma.
• The signature is your name. it tells the reader who wrote the letter.

Assessment

• Once the students complete writing, ask them to exchange and check each other`s work for correct capitalization, punctuation and the conventions of letter writing discussed in the class.
• Ask the students to make corrections in the light of the feedback given by their peers before you take their work to check.
• Involve the students in solving the problems related to letter writing given in the exercise of the textbook.

Follow up

• Ask the students to write a letter to their friends and invite them to their house for a visit.