Creating documents: Practice activity on writing formal letters

This practice activity helps people get more familiar with typing into create formal documents like cover letters.

Ask your program participants to open a new document on their device (eg in Word or Google Docs). Ask them to type up the letters in this practice activity, making sure to use capital letters, punctuation and new lines to break up paragraphs.

Edit the content in the practice letters to suit the needs of your community.

As an extension activity, practice using similar skills to write a professional looking email. Don’t forget to discuss with your participants when they may need to use more formal formatting and language in documents and emails.