Writing Friendly Letters Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: W.4.2

Core Standard

When we write a letter and even an email to people that we have some sort of relationship with, the writing piece is called a friendly letter. This letter can be to our love interest, or even just a minor acquaintance. The person receiving your letter does not have to be someone you refer to as an actual friend, as the name implies. This is an informal form of writing and does not have strict rules that need to be followed. The nature of these pieces leads them to have more general rules. One thing that is really rare these days is the practice of handwritten messages. If you want to stick out in some one’s mind take the time to create a handwritten message. This will ensure that your message is valued as being sincere almost instantly. These messages are most often composed of three parts: an introduction, body, and conclusion. These worksheets will engage students in the process of writing friendly letters.

Friendly Letters Worksheets To Print:

Writing to an Author - The example writes a letter to J.K. Rowling. We walk you through the four step process of composing this to the author. We also show you how to prepare an envelope for mailing it.

Message a Family Member - Do we do this anymore? Write a very special friendly letter to someone in your family - your mom, dad, grandma, sister, or brother. In your work, tell this person why they are important to you! Support your main ideas with details.

The Five Parts - Johnny is very thankful for his mother. Every letter includes five parts: the body, date, greeting, signature, and closing. We have you color these parts in a pre-written piece.

Highlight It - We highlight all the main points you need to identify when writing. We ask that you identify these for us.

Break it Apart - This coaches you to write your own. Write a letter to a friend about what you’ve been doing in school lately.

Thank-Yous - Now you get to write your own thank-you letter! Write a thank-you to your teacher to thank them for everything they do.

Piece It Together - Write your own letter to Santa using all five parts of a letter. Make sure to tell him what you would like for Christmas.

Writing Addresses - The letter shows an example envelope which follows the rules of addresses.

Make Up Envelopes - Address an envelope-send a letter or drawing to someone you know.

Break It Down - On the next page, write a letter to your mom or dad using all five parts.

Piece Those Letters - Always make sure to capitalize every word and use a period after abbreviations for words like street (St.), drive (Dr.), circle (Cir.), and lane (Ln.).

Composition - Pay special attention to how this friendly letter is written. On the next page, circle the correct way to write each of the five sections.

Writing Dates - Rewrite these dates correctly. Each letter should begin with a date in the top right corner of the page. Always capitalize the day and month when writing the date, and always place a comma between the day and month.

Writing Cutouts - For the letter, cut out each of the five sections needed for a friendly format (body, date, signature, closing, and greeting).

More On This - Label each section of the letter using the words body, date, greeting, signature, and closing.

What Are the Parts of Friendly Letters?


While friendly letters can differ in the way they look, the general sections of pieces have many similarities. For the most part a friendly letter will have a heading, a salutation, a body (the meat and potatoes of the piece), a closing, and the writer's signature.


The heading appears at the top (head) of the page. Depending on your teacher's preferences the heading can be centered or aligned to the right of the head. In the heading you will write your (the sender) address followed by the date. The date should be on the next line. From here skip a line and we begin the salutation.


The salutation is the greeting to our friend (or whoever they are). It is seen as a sign of respect to write something cheerful here or your basic Dear, Hi, Hello, or I have even Oh. This should be aligned to the left of the page. Immediately after the greeting we need to add a punctuation mark to finish our thought. Most commonly the comma is placed here.


After a space is placed below the greeting we get into the body which is what this thing is all about. This section contains all the information we are trying to convey in indented paragraph form. This is followed by our closing line that, just like our greeting, is a sign of respect. The common ones are: Best Regards, Sincerely, and Thank You. The first letter of the closing is in CAPS and the last word has a comma that leads to you signature line. Below the closing we write the signed name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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