Friendly Letter Writing Template – Print and Practice

Name: Friendly Letter Writing Template – Print and Practice
SKU: friendly-letter-writing-template
Price: 19.99 CAD
Availability: InStock

Seven parts of a friendly letter are laid out as ruled writing lines with bracketed labels — (Date WITH comma), (Greeting and comma), (Introduction), (Body), (Conclusion), (Closing and comma), (Signature) — and a second copy keeps the identical spacing with every label removed.

Friendly Letter Writing Template – Print and Practice preview

Friendly Letter Writing Template – Print and Practice preview 2

Grades: Grades 2–5
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject: Writing, ELA
Topic: Friendly Letter, Letter Writing
Resource types: Templates
Preparation: Print ready

From the author

About this resource

Writing is a skill that our students can never get enough practice with. The more we can provide them with writing opportunities, the more likely we are to build their confidence and improve their skills.

This is a Friendly Letter Writing Template that will provide your students with just that opportunity! You could use this at the start of a writing unit. It is a great way for you and students to gauge just how much their writing skills have improved from the start to finish of the writing unit. It is a great pre-assessment to observe what students already know about letter writing.

There are 2 templates included. One has writing lines without section labels. The other provides “hints” to support student writing.

The hints included:

Date with comma

Greeting and comma

Introduction

Body

Conclusion

Closing and comma

Signature

These templates are great for elementary students. Outside of a lesson or writing unit, these blank templates could be placed within a writing centre. This gives students the chance to creatively write at their leisure during centre time.

I hope you enjoy!

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Lay out a friendly letter in the conventional order: date, greeting, introduction, body, conclusion, closing, signature
Place a comma correctly in the date, after the greeting and after the closing
Write a letter in three developed sections rather than one undivided block, using the line allocations as the guide to proportion
Produce the same letter without prompts on the unlabelled version, once the form has been practised with support

Teaching tips

Use the labelled page first and the unlabelled page second — the layouts match line for line, so the second is a straight fade of the support rather than a different task
The six body lines and three lines each for introduction and conclusion offer a writing scaffold; adjust the expected length to the purpose and the learner
Keep the unlabelled version in a writing centre as an open template, so students who already know the form can write letters without a fresh prompt

Skills covered

Friendly letter format — students place the date, greeting, body, closing and signature in the conventional positions marked by the bracketed labels.
Comma placement in letters — three of the seven labels name the comma explicitly, in the date, after the greeting and after the closing.
Structuring a piece of writing — the template gives the introduction three lines, the body six and the conclusion three, so students plan the proportions of what they write.
Writing without scaffolding — the second page reproduces the same layout with no labels, so students recall the parts rather than reading them off the page.