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Composition activities get your child to write better stories! These engaging composition activities include storytelling activities, adjective builders, poetry exercises, and group writing games. Each of these composition activities engages your child's imagination as he gets practice writing short stories, personal narratives, and even instruction manuals. These composition activities are great for aspiring writers, and they make great keepsakes for parents and children who will enjoy looking back at the written stories. Have fun with writing with these composition activities.

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Make a Dr. Seuss Story Box!

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

Activity

Wham! Bam! Kapow!: Cartoon Storytelling

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

Activity

Create an Animal Folk Tale

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

Activity

Olympic Postcards

Olympic Postcards

What's the first thing an Olympic athlete does after arriving in the Olympic Village? Send a postcard to the folks back home, of course!

4th grade

Reading & writing

Activity

Write Nutsy News Stories

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

Activity

Popsicle Riddles

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

Activity

Fact Versus Fiction

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

Activity

Codex Book

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Activity

Personal Tall Tales

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.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Activity

Write Your Own Tall Tale

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

Activity

Stuffed Animal Birth Certificate

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

Activity

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

Activity

Outer Space Story

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

Activity

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

Activity

Autumn Cinquain

Autumn Cinquain

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Activity

Rewrite the Fairy Tale Ending

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

Activity

The Zoo Stories: Imagining Animals at Night

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

Activity

Make an ALL ABOUT ME! Book

Make an ALL ABOUT ME! Book

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

1st grade

Reading & writing

Activity

Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words

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

Activity

Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique

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

Activity

Spark a Story

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Activity

Make a Family History Fanfold Timeline!

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

Activity

Vacation Memory Book

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

Activity

Content Clues: Writing with Pictures

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

Activity

Can You Picture It?: A Writing Activity

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

Activity

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