Beginning writers find electronic communication highly engaging, and educators recognize the power of e-mail as a tool for literacy learning. E-mail is well-suited to teaching audience awareness—recognizing what readers need to know in order to reply to messages. By comparing, sending and receiving e-mail replies, students explore issues of reply format and content with audience needs and expectations in mind. This lesson assumes that students have already been introduced to e-mail as a form of communication and have basic knowledge of how to create and send a simple message and how to receive and open a message sent to them. Some prior work with composing email messages may be required. The academic content in this lesson aligns well with Ohio's technology standards. Teachers will need to check available e-mail software and district policies for using student e-mail before implementing this lesson. (author/ncl)