Composition Activities
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Narrative Writing
Make a Dr. Seuss Story Box!
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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.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Vacation Memory Book
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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.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Content Clues: Writing with Pictures
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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.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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How to Write a Scary Story
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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!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Can You Picture It?: A Writing Activity
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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.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
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How to Make a Homemade Book
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How to Make a Homemade Book
Encourage your first grader to uncover her imagination and storytelling skills by authoring her very own book.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
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Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words
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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."
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Rewrite the Fairy Tale Ending
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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.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
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The Zoo Stories: Imagining Animals at Night
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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.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Nature Poetry
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Nature Poetry
Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Fact Versus Fiction
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Fact Versus Fiction
Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
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Personal Tall Tales
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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 they personally know.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Write Your Own Tall Tale
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Write Your Own Tall Tale
Unleash your child's imagination by inviting her to create a tall tale set in her own hometown.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
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Outer Space Story
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Outer Space Story
Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Storyteller
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Storyteller
This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Wham! Bam! Kapow!: Cartoon Storytelling
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Wham! Bam! Kapow!: Cartoon Storytelling
Challenge your kindergartener to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve his fine motor skills in the process.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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Put on a Poetry Party!
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Put on a Poetry Party!
Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and her friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Write Nutsy News Stories
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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.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Popsicle Riddles
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Popsicle Riddles
I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and being the creator of jokes or fortunes to write himself on the Popsicle sticks.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Create an Animal Folk Tale
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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.
1st grade
Social studies
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Summer Summary
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Summer Summary
Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
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Stuffed Animal Birth Certificate
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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.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
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Codex Book
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Codex Book
Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
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Make a Paper Bag Book
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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!
1st grade
Reading & Writing
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Fairy Tale Dice
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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.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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Composition Activities
Looking for ways to engage your child in the writing process without resorting to essays? Our composition and narrative writing activities will bring out your child’s inner storyteller with a variety of fun and creative writing-themed projects. Cartoon storytelling, a codex book, and popsicle riddles get kids thinking outside the box, while tall tales, fairy tales, and zoo visits provide inspiration to get kids writing.