Formal Letter Writing: Preparation Tasks and Assessment

Aimed at KS3 (equally could be used for revision for KS4), this complete resource includes the following:

- identifying the formality of different text types
- discussion of how language choices are determined heavily by audience and purpose
- correction exercise, identifying why the example letter is a poor example
- discussion of what features a successful formal letter will include
- paired response to the task: 'A local skate park is being closed down due to financial reasons. Write a letter to the local council, giving your opinions.'
- peer feedback against a checklist
- a choice of 3 assessment tasks
- lots of support materials: punctuation starters/settlers, checklists of technical elements to include in each of their paragraphs, revision of how to format a formal letter, revision of the different sentence types, challenge cards for differentiation (writing using a different persona).
- teacher notes at the beginning and ideas of how activities can be used in the notes sections.

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