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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.

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Make a Dr. Seuss Story Box!
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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Popsicle Riddles
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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Codex Book
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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Fact Versus Fiction
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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Write Your Own Tall Tale
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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Summer Summary
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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Outer Space Story
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
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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Stuffed Animal Birth Certificate
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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Content Clues: Writing with Pictures
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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Vacation Memory Book
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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Make a Family History Fanfold Timeline!
Make a Family History Fanfold Timeline!
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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.
2nd grade
Reading & writing
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Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique
Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique
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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.
2nd grade
Reading & writing
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Spark a Story
Spark a Story
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Spark a Story
This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!
2nd grade
Reading & writing
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Rewrite the Fairy Tale Ending
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
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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Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words
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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Write a Collaborative Story
Write a Collaborative Story
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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!
3rd grade
Reading & writing
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Make a Paper Bag Book
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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Design a Diorama!
Design a Diorama!
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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.
1st grade
Reading & writing
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Write a Tall Tale
Write a Tall Tale
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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!
3rd grade
Reading & writing
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How to Make a Homemade Book
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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Create an Animal Folk Tale
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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Can You Picture It?: A Writing Activity
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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Step Inside the Story!
Step Inside the Story!
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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.
3rd grade
Reading & writing
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