Writing Activities and Games
Writing activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy writing activities to more advanced, we've got you covered! Use the selector on the right to narrow your search for writing activities by grade.
Build Sentence Puzzles
Does your kindergartener know what a sentence is? Does she keep reading, long after she reaches the period, like she's in a run-on marathon? Help her practice reading, and learn the key pieces to the sentence puzzle, by creating sentence puzzles at home!
Make a Heart Brooch
Kids generally can't come up with the cash to buy the bling they dream of giving mom. With this project, they can make her jewelry themselves!
An Adverb Acting Game
Adverbs are all around us. Here's an adverb acting game that will have your child hungrily, unceasingly, enthusiastically learning!
You're on the Air! Write a Commercial
By strengthening their oral communication skills, students become confident speakers, whether they are speaking one-on-one or to an audience. Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!
Make Your Mom! A Creative Measurement Activity
How wonderful is Mom? Help your child "measure" the ways with this creative gift of appreciation.
Put Together a Procedure!
If following directions is hard for your child, why not turn the tables and teach her how to effectively give instructions? With this fun activity you'll also be teaching your child how to write good scientific procedures that can be reproducible.
Fact or Inference? Learn the Difference
Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.
Make a Family History Fanfold Timeline!
Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after an event. It will also give your child practice in putting events in order.
Guess My Word: A Vocab Game
Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your second grader.
Sentence Stretchers: A Writing Tool
For some, structuring a good sentence can be agonizing! Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.
