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WRITING WORKSHOP
Procedural Texts: Business Letters
Learning Targets
• Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading or listening.
• Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one on one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Writing a Business Letter
Letters can be used for a variety of purposes ranging from conveying information to maintaining personal relationships. Letters can be either formal or informal. Much like other modes of writing, there are established conventions and processes for writing letters.
To achieve these learning targets, you will engage in a series of activities in which you work with your teacher and with your classmates to construct two model business letters. You will then use these models to write your own letter.
ACTIVITY 1
Discovering the Elements of a Business Letter
Before Reading
1. For what purposes do you think business letters might be used? During Reading
2. The following business letter sample represents a formal outgoing letter sent by a middle school to the addresses of all parents and community members in the immediate vicinity. The common elements of a formal or business letter are • Sender’s address
• Date
• Inside address (the address of the recipient) • Salutation
• Body
• Closing
• Signature
As you read this letter with your class, mark each element with the appropriate label from the list above.
LEARNING STRATEGIES
Shared Reading, Marking the Text, Graphic Organizer, Summarizing, Brainstorming, Drafting, Sharing and Responding
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
A business letter is a type of correspondence exchanged between businesses, or between a business and its customers.
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