Name: How to Write an Email - A Mini Unit
Brand: Top Teaching Tasks
Price: 4.50 NZD
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 5 (36 reviews)

Description

Teach your students the essential modern skill of writing a clear and effective email with this complete, ready-to-use mini-unit. This resource uses vibrant, engaging slides and practical activities to guide students through the entire process, from planning to publishing.

This mini-unit covers the crucial differences between formal and informal emails, making it the perfect tool for your literacy programme, a digital literacy focus, or to leave for a relief teacher.

What’s Included:

Engaging Teaching Slideshow: A comprehensive PowerPoint that introduces the learning intentions and success criteria. It explicitly teaches the parts of an email , the importance of a specific subject line , and the key features of the email body.
Formal and Informal Exemplars: The slideshow includes clear, annotated examples of both a formal email (to a teacher) and an informal email (a business enquiry) to break down the structure for students.
Scaffolded Graphic Organiser: A versatile planning template to help students structure both formal and informal emails, ensuring all key components are included before they write.
Creative Writing Prompts: Two fun and practical writing activities are included in the slideshow: one for an informal birthday invitation and another for a formal proposal to the school principal.
Student Self-Assessment Checklist: Empower students to take agency in their learning with a simple checklist to review their own work against the required email parts.
Publishing Template: A final template that mimics a real email interface, perfect for students to publish their “best copy”.