My Dear Soldiers | English Grade 7 CBSE

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Explore the parts of a letter

A friendly letter is built from a few simple parts. Tap a part to reveal what it is and where it goes on the page.

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The three big ideas

A letter is a written message you send to someone. Even with phones and email, a handwritten letter still feels warm and personal — it carries your voice across any distance.

There are two main kinds:

Informal (friendly) letter — to people you know well, like family and friends. The tone is warm and chatty.
Formal letter — to people you do not know personally, like a principal or an officer. The tone is polite and businesslike.

In your Poorvi reader, My Dear Soldiers is a friendly letter — children writing warmly to the soldiers who guard the country.

A friendly letter has the same parts every time, in this order from top to bottom:

Heading / date — your address and the date.
Salutation (greeting) — Dear Grandma,
Body — your message, written in paragraphs.
Closing — Yours lovingly, / With love,
Signature — your name at the very end.

And the envelope carries it all — the receiver's address and a stamp go on the outside. Use the explorer above to tap each part.

Worked example. Where does "Dear Grandma," belong in a letter?

It is the salutation (greeting), so it goes near the top — just below the heading and date, and right before the body begins.

Common mistake: the greeting and the closing each end with a comma — write Dear Riya, and Yours lovingly, (not a full stop, and never with no punctuation at all).

Because a friendly letter goes to someone you know, the tone should sound like you — warm, personal and a little chatty.

Write the way you would talk to that person — relaxed and affectionate.
Ask after them: How are you? How was the trip?
Share little bits of your own news to keep them close.

That warm tone is exactly what makes My Dear Soldiers feel so heartfelt — the children speak to the soldiers as friends, not strangers.

Where you'll use it

When friendly letters help

Writing to family and friends

Sending news to a grandparent, a cousin or a pen-friend keeps you close even when you are far apart. With the same heading, greeting, body, closing and signature, your letter carries your voice across any distance.

Thank-you notes

After a gift, a visit or a kind act, a short thank-you note is a warm, polite way to show you care. It uses the very same parts — just a few friendly lines in the body between a greeting and a loving closing.

Check yourself

Competency quiz

Modelled on the competency-based pattern — identifying the parts of a friendly letter, putting them in order, an assertion–reason and a case study — testing whether you can use the ideas, not just recall them.

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