Using the “Unusual Friendly Letter” lesson
WritingFix has a fabulous (and free-to-use) on-line lesson inspired by Mark Teague’s picture book, Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School. Click here to read the lesson’s overview and have access to all its resources.
If you’ve used this lesson with your students, we want to hear:
1) What worked well for you with the lesson; or…
2) What adaptations did you make to have success with your students; or…
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1 Response to Using the “Unusual Friendly Letter” lesson
February 28th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I used this lesson with a 6th grade class. Since the book is based on Ike exaggerating how horrible the academy is, when in fact it is fabulous, I had my students exaggerate about how horrible our classroom is. They wrote persuasive letters to the principal using the same type of exaggeration as Ike. They had fun and turned out some great letters.