Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities. Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes. Based upon the class's letter description chart, have students categorize the examples of mail they brought from home.

It has a range of letters including: invitations, a manual letters, a postcard, which could be a good introduction to letter writing. Role play area as a post office would enable children to create stamps for envelopes and write their own letters. Introduce the genre by discussing letters and letter writing, using the following questions as a guide: One of the characters from the book has decided that it would be nice to create a community garden. Write letters that the characters might share about the plans. Once students have sorted all their letters, bring the class together again and ask them to share what they found as they worked with their letters. Ask students to share the reasons that they categorized the letters as they did.I have very fond memories of this book from my own childhood, so this review may be a little biased! I think any small person opening this book for the first time would be delighted to find the treasures hiding inside and perhaps, as I have, remember it as an enjoyable reading experience. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics). Janet Ahlberg (1944-1994) was a British children's book illustrator, and the co-creator, together with her husband Allan Ahlberg, of the best-selling Jolly Postman series. Born as Janet Hall in Yorkshire in 1944, she studied at Sunderland Technical College, where she met Ahlberg. The two married in 1969, and began to work together, publishing their first co-venture - The Old Joke Book - in 1976. She won the 1978 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British Library Association - an award recognizing the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject - for Each Peach Pear Plum.

I remember when my grands were younger they said, "Can I go deliver the mail to the neighbors? I want to see their happy faces, too." Each character's letter has a connection with their traditional story and gives children a new and interesting concept of how traditional stories can be adapted and reconceptualized. Through activities such as, hot seating, children can then begin to test their knowledge of the characters and the stories connected to them, and then imagine how this story could be told differently. Critically read The Jolly Postman. Begin by summarizing the story: the book tells about the mail that a letter carrier delivers to fairy tale characters. Little hands will love opening the envelopes to read the post in this magical story, full of festive, fairy tale surprises! One of the characters from the book wants to start a community recycling center. Write letters that the characters might send or receive in this scenario.Demonstrate the Letter Generator for students. Ask students to choose characters from The Jolly Postman and share one of the scenarios below: Students read a wide range of print and nonprint texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world; to acquire new information; to respond to the needs and demands of society and the workplace; and for personal fulfillment. Among these texts are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works. There's a card for Baby Bear, a game appropriately called 'Beware' for Red Riding Hood from Mr Wolf, a get-well jigsaw for Humpty Dumpty and many more! But, can he deliver it all by Christmas? Circulate among students as they work, answering any questions and watching for evidence that students are using genre characteristics to sort the letters. Maths: Data handling. Pricing for different letters- Size of the envelopes and/or size of the stamps dependent- how much will it cost to send a particular letter first or second class.

Read the book, being sure to read and display each letter and envelope. As you read each letter, you might pass the piece to students to look at more closely as you continue reading. The story follows The Jolly Postman as he delivers letters and parcels to various characters from popular children's stories. I personally think this would be a great book to use in a KS1 for a literacy lesson. It provides great opportunities to aid modelling different styles of writing e.g letters, postcards, rhyming, description and re telling fairytales. It can be used to define children's understanding of some well-known fairytales and maybe lead onto dictation or conversational talk. Talk with the students about the different types of letters that a letter carrier has to deliver. For example, there are formal letters, chatty notes, and invitations.Teaching wise I feel that this book has a lot to offer, this book could be used in a letter writing unit of literacy work, I feel this book could also be used in a unit of work about careers and jobs, with the obvious use of a postman. I also feel it could be stretched further and used in a unit of work about community, including work about our neighbours and/or manners, due to the contrast between the bears and the witch in the story for example. This brilliant teacher-made set of 'The Jolly Postman' resources is designed to save you time and make planning lessons easier. With this wonderful selection of tools, you will be able to create wonderfully exciting lessons for your students to enjoy.

Make copies of the Type of Letter Worksheet or prepare an overhead or chart paper to record students' observations. As an alternative to letter writing, use the interactive Postcard Creator to create original postcards. After printing their text, students can illustrate the front of the cards using markers or other art supplies. Letter Attributes Chart: This printable chart describes the characteristics of friendly, business, and persuasive letters.

Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes. Review the chart of characteristics created in the previous session. Answer any questions students have. Additionally, we also have some great 'The Jolly Postman' activities and games so that you can make your lesson interactive. For example, this Jolly Postman Roleplay Activityis a great way to get your students thinking about the characters from the story. Use the Type of Letter Worksheet, categorize the letters delivered by The Jolly Postman, based upon the class's letter description chart.