4th and 5th Grade Writing Activities

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

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

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

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

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.