Writing Activities : Page 6

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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

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

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Discover whether cheap saline solution bottle cleans and disinfects just as well as more expensive kinds formulated with different ingredients.

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

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

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

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

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.