writing letters

Learning how to write a letter is important for improving communication, social, and handwriting skills. It also teaches the structure of a letter. Different types of letters include formal, informal, thank you, invitation, complaint, and letters to Santa or a magazine. We are going to write a thank you letter, which is informal. The setup includes the date in the top right corner, a greeting on the left side, the body of the letter, a closing, and our name with a fancy signature. Hi friends, welcome to Writing Letters, a friendly podcast for education. Today, join me with my pen pals in training where we write, we learn, and we smile. Today, we are going to learn a little bit about how to write a letter and why it's so important. Okay, friends, so learning how to be able to write a letter is important because it helps to improve communication, social, and handwriting skills. It also teaches you the writing instruction in letters. So once we are done with this and we understand the structure of a letter, we will be able to feel comfortable enough to move to take the skills and move on to typing. But first, let's start with some types of letters. Let's recognize what they are. One of the types of letters that you can write is formal letters. Another one is informal. Some letters you can provide information. Some will be thank you letters or a letter of invitation or a letter to complain to somebody. You can also have a letter to Santa or you can have a letter to a magazine or a newspaper. For this occasion, we are going to write a thank you letter. So thank you letters are important to be able to say thank you to someone for allowing you to go visit them, go visit a place, kind of like a farm or a museum, educational places. You can also thank somebody who helped you. You can thank someone for a gift or just simply thank someone for spending time with you. A thank you letter is considered informal. So the setup is as follows. I want us to all close our eyes, friends, and we're going to picture a blank piece of lined paper. Are you ready? I am. On this paper, the date goes in the top right corner. Do you see it? Now we're going to skip the line. Actually, let's talk about the date. Today is June 9, 2024. That's what we're going to write in the right corner. We're going to skip a few lines. And then on the left side, we're going to write a greeting. What is a greeting, you may ask? A greeting is the name of the person saying hello to the person that you're writing the letter to. So it could be something like dear mom or dear friend. And so choose who you want to write your letter to. We're going to write that in our minds. Then we're going to move on to the next part that is called the body. This is the part where we write the actual message that we want to send to the person we're writing to. Now when we finish that part, we're going to skip a few letters, a few lines, sorry. And we're going to write what is called a closing. An example of that could be sincerely. Another example could be best regards or yours truly. And so you can choose any of these to close your letter. We skip four lines and we finally write our name. But we have to go back to that space that we left behind. And in this space, we're going to write our fancy signature. Now you can open your eyes. There you have it, guys. That's the correct setup for a thank you letter. Very easy. Thank you for listening. And if you like this podcast, you should also check out another podcast called Dork Tales. And I hope you visit next time. Thank you. ♪♪♪