How to Write an Email

How to Write an Email

(and make all your teachers happy!)

When you write an email (or Schoology
Message) to your teachers, you want to sound like your best, most professional self.

Open Ended

Why would you want to sound professional when emailing/messaging your teachers?

Parts of an Email

To line - This is where you put the email address of the person you are sending the email to.

Subject line - This tells the recipient what the message is about. It should be from 1-5 words long.
You do not put your message here!!!!

Body - This is the big, blank space under the subject line and above “Sent from my iPad.” This is
where you put the message you want to send. It needs to start with a greeting (Dear Ms. Makela
or Hello Ms. Makela or…). It also needs to be written in complete sentences. Finally, it needs to
end with a closing and your name (Thank you, Fred or See you tomorrow, Fred or…).

Multiple Choice

The email address of the person you are sending the message to goes in the _____.

• Subject line

• To line

• Body

• Closing

Multiple Choice

The subject tells what your email/message is about. How long should it be?

• You don't need one

• 5-10 words

• Always 3 words

• 1-5 words

Multiple Choice

The body of the email is where you write your message. It needs to start with a _______ and end with a ______.

• greeting; closing

• email address; subject

• Your name; their name

• A funny meme or gif

What does a complete sentence look like?

●Capital letter to begin sentence and all appropriate capitalization (I, names…)

●Punctuation at the end of the sentence

●No texting language and correct spelling

●Each sentence has a subject and verb - and they agree!

●Can stand alone as a complete idea that makes sense

​The body of your email needs to be written in complete sentences!!

Multiple Select

A complete sentence must (choose all that apply):

• start with a capital letter.

• use texting language.

• end with punctuation.

• make sense when it stands alone

• use emojis.

Multiple Choice

What part of your email needs to be in complete sentences?

• Subject line

• To line

• Body

• Closing

Find the Parts of an Email

​Can you find...

• the to line?

• the subject line?

• where you write the greeting, body, and closing?

Draw

Circle the To line.

Put a star on the subject line.

Put a smiley face where you should type the greeting, body, and closing.

A Schoology
Message is

similar!

This is what you will see when you open a new
Schoology message. Notice, it does not say
“Sent from my iPad,” but it still has a large blank
space for you to write the body and closing.