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Make an ALL ABOUT ME! Book

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Write a Collaborative Story

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Can You Picture It?: A Writing Activity

Build second grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Write a Story From an Ant's Perspective

Here's a writing activity that helps first graders explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Step Inside the Story!

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as he keeps track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

How to Write a Scary Story

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Write a Tall Tale

Help your second grader grasp her understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing her own about your family!

Content Clues: Writing with Pictures

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Fairy Tale Dice

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your kindergartener to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve his reading and writing skills while he's at it.

Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Rewrite the Fairy Tale Ending

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Write Nutsy News Stories

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Practice Writing with The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Make a Dr. Seuss Story Box!

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Personal Tall Tales

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone he personally knows.

Make a Paper Bag Book

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Design a Diorama!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Create an Animal Folk Tale

Invite your first grader to follow a African tradition by coming up with an explanatory African folktale and assembling a book to go along with it.

Stuffed Animal Birth Certificate

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Vacation Memory Book

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Write a Cliffhanger

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Write Your Own Tall Tale

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting her to create a tall tale set in her own hometown.

The Zoo Stories: Imagining Animals at Night

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

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