Courtesy Check

This practical social-emotional learning and writing worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen digital etiquette, tone awareness, and revision skills through realistic email examples. By evaluating two messages for politeness, students learn how word choice, phrasing, and tone affect communication, respect, and professionalism while practicing how to improve messages that sound impolite or unclear.

Learning Goals

• Courtesy & Respect in Writing (Grades 4-6): Identify polite and impolite language in digital communication.
• Revising Tone for Politeness: Rewrite sentences to improve respect, clarity, and appropriateness.
• Email Etiquette Awareness: Understand how courteous wording supports positive communication.
• Social-Emotional Communication Skills: Recognize how tone impacts relationships and cooperation.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to support upper elementary ELA and SEL standards.
• Real-World Communication Practice: Builds skills students use in school, group work, and everyday interactions.
• Editing & Revision Focus: Encourages students to fix tone issues thoughtfully rather than simply identifying errors.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for writing lessons, SEL discussions, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students build confidence in evaluating and improving the tone of digital messages. By underlining courteous language and revising impolite sentences, learners develop stronger awareness of respect, professionalism, and effective communication. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with email etiquette, tone revision, and social-emotional literacy skills that support positive interactions.

This worksheet is part of our reading emails worksheets collection.