Letters to the Teacher

Letters to the teacher is a great way to get kids writing and sharing their understanding of the text with you!

Here is a letter that I had my kids do after reading an article about a guide dog named Aynsley that works in the hospital. We read the article together a couple of times before I asked them to do the writing. I have found that letters to the teacher are better when you use the same text for everyone, and do the letters at one time for second grade students. I tried having a few kids each week to do them, but it was hard to manage and the kids were not doing them correctly. When I started to do them together I could remind them of the components, and what was expected of them.

I also have a rubric that I use to score the letter for a reading grade.