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Generating a plan for a letter to be written to Joseph Coelho

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Generating a plan for a letter to be written to Joseph Coelho

I can generate a plan for a letter to be written to Joseph Coelho.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. A letter is a piece of writing that someone sends to someone else.
  2. There are many different reasons why a person may write and send a letter.
  3. The sender is the person who wrote the letter and is sending it.
  4. The recipient is the person who the letter is written to and is receiving it.
  5. Letters follow a specific structure and layout.

Common misconception

Pupils may be unclear as to the position of the addresses and the date in a letter.

Teach pupils that the features of a letter follow strict layout rules. Have some examples of written letters for the children to engage with.

Keywords

  • Letter - a piece of writing that someone sends to someone else

  • Sender - the person who wrote the letter and who is sending it

  • Recipient - the person who the letter is written to and who is receiving it

You may wish to spend time as a class to generate ideas for questions you want to ask Joseph Coelho and to brainstorm ideas of what you might write in the letter before children complete their own plans.
Teacher tip

Equipment

You will need access to the Joseph Coelho poems explored earlier in this unit for pupils to refer to. See previous lessons which provide details on how to find them.

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of these are poems by Joseph Coelho?
Correct answer: 'Miss Flotsam'
'I Am A Painter'
Correct answer: 'There Are Things That Lurk In The Library'
Correct answer: 'MORERAPS'
Q2.
Fill in the blank. Learning something by heart means to learn something in such a way that you can say it from ...
a book
Correct answer: memory
paper
Q3.
Which of these are things that you might learn by heart?
Correct answer: songs
Correct answer: poems
menus
Q4.
Which of these is a step to take to learn a poem by heart?
Correct answer: listening to the poem being read aloud
reading the poet's biography
reading other poems by the same poet
Q5.
True or false? A recital means to speak or perform a poem aloud from memory.
Correct Answer: true, True
Q6.
Which of the following should we try to do when reciting a poem to an audience?
Correct answer: Look at the audience.
Look at the floor.
Correct answer: Speak in a loud, clear voice.
Speak in quiet voice all the way through.

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6 Questions

Q1.
Fill in the blank. A __________ is a piece of writing that someone sends to someone else.
poem
Correct answer: letter
story
Q2.
Which of these are reasons someone may choose to send a letter?
Correct answer: to maintain relationships and friendships
Correct answer: to communicate information
to play a game
Q3.
What is the name of the person who is sending the letter?
Correct answer: sender
recipient
address
Q4.
An __________ is a location at which a person lives or receives mail.
sender
recipient
Correct answer: address
Q5.
What is the name for the person who is receiving the letter?
sender
Correct answer: recipient
address
Q6.
True or false? The layout of a text refers to the way the information is organised on the page.
Correct Answer: true, True