Autumn Overstreet & Tammy Wilcox

ECED 4300 ADr. Tonja Root

Spring 20114th Grade

Prewriting – Courtesy Letters

Autumn Overstreet Prewriting GPS

• ELA4W4 – The student consistently uses a writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing.

• a: The student plans and drafts independently and resourcefully.

PLO Students will plan and draft independently

and resourcefully.

Courtesy Letters What are they?

Letters of appreciation Who receives them?

Someone who gives you something

Someone who is helpful An interviewer

When do you send them? Someone give you something

Someone helps you After an interview for a job Anyone that you want to thank

Pick your topic Type of writing Audience Complete a graphic organizer

Pre-writing

Root, T. (n.d.). Friendly letter graphic organizer. Retrieved May 22, 2007, from

Courtesy Letter Graphic Organizer – Prewriting

What is your address? ________________________________________ (Your street number, street name, & apartment number (if living in an apartment)) _________________________________________ (Your city, state, and zip code) _________________________________________ (Today’s date) Who will get your letter? ___________________________ (Greeting) What are some ideas or reasons for writing a thank you letter?

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

What other things do you appreciate about that person?

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_____________________ (Closing) _____________________ (Your signature)

Head

ing

Body

Modified from: Root, T. (n.d.). Friendly letter graphic organizer. Retrieved May 22, 2007, from http://coefaculty.valdosta.edu/troot/eced4300/Graphic%20Organizers.htm 

Thank you letter sample. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.resume-resource.com/extyl1.html

APA Citiation

Talk about examples of gifts Use information to fill graphic

organizer Students will fill in the graphic

organizer

Practice Activity for 4th Graders

Students - receive a blank graphic organizer

Students - brainstorm and fill out graphic organizer

Students - think about three items you have received as a gift

Students – think about three things that you appreciate about that person who gave you the gift.

Practice activity

Have you received a gift?

Has your teacher been nice to you and you would like to thank him/her?

Would you like to thank your teacher or your parent(s)?

Think!

What is your address?   ________________________________________ (Your street number, street name, & apartment number (if living in an

apartment))  _________________________________________ (Your city, state, and zip code)

_________________________________________ (Today’s date)

Who will get your letter? ___________________________ (Greeting)

Brainstorm4th Grade Classroom

What are some ideas or reasons for writing a thank you letter?  

__________________________________

__________________________________

__________________________________

Body

What other things do you appreciate about that person?  __________________________________

__________________________________

__________________________________

Body cont.

_____________________ (Closing)

_____________________ (Your signature)

Closure

I will use your pre-writing graphic organizer to assess the your work.

Meet PLO ~ Providing three ideas Partially Met PLO ~ Providing two ideas Didn’t meet PLO ~ Providing zero to one idea.

Heading and closing must be completed If all parts are not complete, then you didn’t

meet the PLO.

Assessment4th Grade Classroom

Drafting GPS

• ELA4W4 – The student consistently uses a writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing.

• a: The student plans and drafts independently and resourcefully.

PLO Students will plan and draft independently

and resourcefully.

Tammy Wilcox

What are they? Letters of appreciation

Who receives them? Someone who gives you

something Someone who is helpful An interviewer

Form of Writing – Courtesy Letters

Drafting Take pre-writing graphic organizer ideas and use to create your drafted piece.

Stage of Writing

Root, T. (n.d.). Friendly letter graphic organizer. Retrieved May 22, 2007, from

Courtesy Letter Graphic Organizer – Drafting

What is your address? ________________________________________ (Your street number, street name, & apartment number (if living in an apartment)) _________________________________________ (Your city, state, and zip code) _________________________________________ (Today’s date) Who will get your letter? ___________________________ (Greeting) List three reasons why you are thankful for the gift you received.

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

List three things that you appreciate about that person.

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_____________________ (Closing) _____________________ (Your signature)

Head

ing

Body

Modified from: Root, T. (n.d.). Friendly letter graphic organizer. Retrieved May 22, 2007, from http://coefaculty.valdosta.edu/troot/eced4300/Graphic%20Organizers.htm 

909 Prices Fork RoadBlacksburg, VA 24060(540) 555-1111abcde@vt.edu December 1, 2010

Ms. Marcia H. Meeks30 Locke LaneRichmond, VA 23219

Dear Ms. Meeks:

Thank you so much for your time and advice during my visit to your office last week. I very much appreciate your inviting me to visit since this was my first experience seeing the hands-on work which takes place in a design department. I learned a great deal, and hope to share what I learned with members of our student chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers.After January, I will be in contact with you again to explore the possibility of arranging a summer internship with your firm. As I mentioned to you when we met, I had an opportunity to work on an intense, four-day interdisciplinary project judged by faculty in which my team received top honors. I gained valuable teamwork, problem-solving and presentation skills and learned to work effectively with students studying to enter different professions. I believe my skills would make me an asset to an organization like yours which often must produce excellent work under tight time constraints.Thank you again for all your help, and I look forward to talking with you in the coming months.

Sincerely,(handwritten signature)Charlotte A. Leffen

Thank you letter sample. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.career.vt.edu/jobsearc/thankyou.htm

APA Citiation

Students - fill use the pre-writing graphic organizer to draft a courtesy letter.

Students - provide three reasons why they are thankful for the gift they rec’d

Students - provide three reason why they appreciate the person who gave the gift

Heading and closing are required.

Practice Activity

What is your address?   ________________________________________ (Your street number, street name, & apartment number (if living in an

apartment))  _________________________________________ (Your city, state, and zip code)

_________________________________________ (Today’s date)

Who will get your letter? ___________________________ (Greeting)

Completing Drafting Graphic Organizer

4th Grade Classroom

List three reasons why you are thankful for the gift you received?

______________________________________

______________________________________

______________________________________

BodyUse complete sentences

What are three things you appreciate about that person who gave you the gift?  ____________________________________________

____________________________________________

____________________________________________

Body cont.Use complete sentences

_____________________ (Closing)

_____________________ (Your signature)

Closure

I will use the drafting graphic organizer to assess the your work.

Meet PLO ~ Providing three reasons Partially Met PLO ~ Providing two reasons Didn’t meet PLO ~ Providing zero to one reason.

Heading and closing must be completed If all parts are not complete, then you didn’t meet

the PLO.

Assessment4th Grade Classroom

How to write a letter~Poem~

Friendly letter poem. (2011). Retrieved from www.jbonzer.com

Letter PoemFirst you write the heading the heading, the headingFirst you write the heading the month, the day, and the year

Letter PoemNext you write the greeting the greeting, the greetingNext you write the greeting You start it off with dear

Letter PoemThen you write the body the body, the bodyThen you write the body You ask and tell some things too

Letter PoemThen you write the closing the closing, the closingThen you write the closing Say: “your friend” or “I love you”

Letter PoemSign your name right under this, under this, under thisSign your name under this And your letter is through!

Citations Modified from: Root, T. (n.d.). Friendly letter graphic

organizer pre-writing. Retrieved May 22, 2007, from

http://coefaculty.valdosta.edu/troot/eced4300/Grap hic%20Organizers.htm

Friendly letter poem. (2011). Retrieved from www.jbonzer.com