Informal Letter Writing Guide (Eduqas Component 2, Section B) - 4 of 7

A comprehensive guide to writing informal letters which meets the specification requirements of the Eduqas course. Guided activities which encourage independent work, personal reflection and improvement to vocabulary, spelling and punctuation alongside. Could be used as lesson materials or as homework/revision.

The following activities are included:

• Classifying formal vs. informal tasks;
• Key concept recall: persuasive devices;
• Key concept recall: format;
• A useful acronym for structure;
• Working through a task;
• Pause to proof;
• Reflection task: how successful?;
• Brevity is limiting: word count task;
• Reflection task: upon further reflection;
• Generating ideas;
• Vocabulary builder: advisory adverbs;
• Developing ideas;
• What do you think?;
• Reading on the topic;
• Retrieval practice (AO1);
• Inference practice (AO2);
• Planning your response;
• Writing your own letter;
• Pause to proof;
• Reflection task: self-assessment;
• Reflection task: review your knowledge.

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