Email Writing Complete Back to School Lesson
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Teach students how to write a formal email while setting your communication expectations with this complete email writing lesson. This lesson is a great back-to-school activity: you'll review basic technology skills and start building relationships with your students!
For this lesson, you'll email your students a welcome message, modeling appropriate email tone for your classroom and letting them know some fun information about you. Then, students will learn about email writing with the included slideshow.
You can check students' understanding with the included self-grading quiz before students email you about themselves. If you choose to grade the emails, it will be easy and quick with the included rubric options.
Help students teach themselves or review what they've learned with the included annotated example emails. Everything in this lesson can be delivered completely online or in-person for ultimate teaching flexibility!
This Lesson Includes:
- EDITABLE Email Writing Google Slides Presentation
- EDITABLE AND SELF-GRADING Google Forms Quiz
- Annotated Email Examples
- Formal Email
- Professional, but Casual Email
- Email Rubric
- EDITABLE Google Doc
- EDITABLE Google Sheets (for instant uploading into Google Classroom)
- Teacher's Directions
- Directions for Uploading the Google Sheets Rubric Into Google Classroom
Please note that only the resources marked editable can be modified. Please look at the preview, which includes all the major components of this resource, prior to purchase to be sure this lesson is right for you and your students.
This resource is highly flexible! The teacher directions suggest ways to teach this lesson online or in-person, depending on your teaching situation. This is a great back-to-school lesson, but could also be used to have students write emails to representatives during a social justice unit, write gratitude emails around Thanksgiving, or as an enrichment to almost any unit.
Need more first week of school activities?
- Back-to-School Stations
- FREE "I Am" Poem
- FREE Classroom Procedures Scavenger Hunt
- Grammar Introduction Activity
Need more basic writing skills lessons? Try:
***This resource is contained within a Google file. Included are NON-EDITABLE PDF files. Before purchasing, please review the preview to make sure this resource supports your and your students' needs. The whole resource, with the exception of any answer keys, are included in the preview.
