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Have Weekly E-mail Assignments
Introducing E-mail:
Student need to learn your expectations for using E-mail in the classroom. I have a set standard of the way I want every
student to write emails. I have my students the first two times E-mail me the message prior to sending it to their ePal.
1. Include a greeting
2. Write a polite message
3. Include a closing and your name at the end
4. Spell
correctly, check for periods, and capital letters
5. CC your teacher the message
6. Include a proper subject line
Teaching E-mail skills:
Notice that each skill builds upon what is taught. Skills are repeated week to week to make sure they are practiced and
learned. Students read and respond to E-mail during Silent Reading Time. Every effort to connect what is being learned in the classroom to the purpose for the e-mail.
Teaching students to use the friendly letter format is important to the E-mail process. I post a hand written poster
in my classroom every week that has the weekly e-mail assignments.
Week 1: Send e-mail to a friend
- E-mail Skills:
- Send E-mail to one person - "To:" line address
- Reply to E-mail - RE: Button
Week 2: Send a Happy Note to everyone in the class
- Send e-mail to more then one person -
- "To:" line address
- Reply to e-mail - Using RE: Button
- Delete read e-mail
Week 3: Send E-mail to your Explorer team to decide on which port to leave from
- Send e-mail to more then one person -
- "To:" line address Reply to e-mail -
- Using the "Reply All" button
- Delete read e-mail
- Printing an e-mail - Teacher check for appropriate e-mail format - Students print off their E-mail
Week 4: Send E-mail to your teacher updating her on how you are doing on your report card goals.
- Send e-mail to the teacher -
- "To:" line address
- Using proper letter format
- Editing your e-mail - Using Spell Check
Week 5: Read your new ePal message and organize your mail folders
- Making new folders
- Saving an e-mail message
- Opening your e-mail message in WORD
- Students draft replies to ePal messages in WORD.
- This week is spent drafting ePal letters
Week 6: Send E-mail to your ePal
- Copy and pasting messages from WORD to E-mail
- Using proper subject lines: Enter your ePals's name in the subject
- Sending the message to the teacher. This way the teacher can track E-mail that goes in and out. E-mail
not edited or in the friendly letter format is returned to the student for additional work.
- Using Forward tool to send your E-mail to your ePal
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