This chapter concerns the children write notes for a variety of purpose, but Boyd emphasizes their educational value: Children practice reading and writing skills, and they recognize functional and social nature of writing (Boyd, 1985) teaching student how to write a letter is an excellent way to improve student writing skills. Although letter writing is becoming less and less common these days with the increase in technology and email usage, writing a letter is a great way to have students practice their writing skills. Tomkins says Letter writing is the logical extension of these informal notes (Tomkins, 2008) Letters are written to communicate with a specific and important audience, children think more carefully about what they want to say, write more legibly, and are more inclined to use spelling, capitalization, and punctuation conventions correctly.
According to Soo Hyun Kim,” Having an authentic audience makes children to be more careful about their writing, because they want to communicate effectively.” Not only do children have the opportunity to sharpen their writhing skills through letter writing, but they also increase their awareness of audience (Tomkins, 2008) through Letter writing with audiences, children can recognize necessary parts of a sentence with the students including Capital Letters, Punctuation, and a complete. Knowing how to write a basic letter is an important skill that all children should learn.
References
Tompkins, G.E. (2008). Teaching writing: Balancing process and product. Upper Saddle River , NJ
Boyd, R. (1985). The message board: Language comes alive. In J.M. Newman (Ed), Whole language: Theory in use (pp. 91-98). Portsmouth , NH
Wagaman , J. (2008, Dec 4). Teach Students How to Write a Letter: Lesson in Letter Writing for Elementary Students, Suite101.com Media Inc. Retrieved from
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