Epistolary Fiction

There’s something special about reading a letter. It isn’t written for everyone. It’s written for one person, and the reader gets to peek into a conversation between two people who care about each other. This worksheet uses a warm, simple letter from a second grader to her grandfather to help young readers understand how letters

Some stories are told to you. This one is told around you, through a sequence of emails you are simply allowed to read, with no narrator explaining what anyone is really thinking or feeling. That absence is exactly the point. This worksheet asks seniors to do the interpretive work themselves, piecing together character and meaning