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Enhance the learning experience and cultivate essential writing skills with our collection of writing activities for kids of all ages. Creativity, collaboration, and skill-building abound in these activities that will inspire even the most reluctant young wordsmiths. From collective writing and storyboarding to journaling and other artistic outlets, kids of all experience levels will find the joy in the art and skill of writing.

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WritingAbout Mount Rushmore

WritingAbout Mount Rushmore

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

Year 5

Social studies

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A WritingExercise

A WritingExercise

Develop his writing skills and his creativity.

Year one

Science

Activity

Create a Recipe to practise Writing

Create a Recipe to practise Writing

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Year 4

Reading & writing

Activity

: A WritingActivity

: A WritingActivity

Build year three writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Year 3

Reading & writing

Activity

Practise WritingWith The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Practise WritingWith The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong year one reading and writing skills

Year one

Reading & writing

Activity

Cloud Writing

Cloud Writing

...year one writing, writing activity, year one activity, imagination, cloud writing, writing skills, composition, creativity, clouds, cloud activity...

Year one

Reading & writing

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A Collaborative WritingExperience

A Collaborative WritingExperience

...letter writing, collaborative story writing, collaborative story, writing practise for kids, fun writing activity, reluctant writers...

Year 5

Reading & writing

Activity

Content Clues: WritingWith Pictures

Content Clues: WritingWith Pictures

...creative writing, writing activity, writing with pictures, story starter, composition activity, writing prompt, get kids writing...

Year one

Reading & writing

Activity

A WritingGame

A WritingGame

...year five, year five activity, writing, detail...

Year 5

Reading & writing

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A WritingGame

A WritingGame

...Next, you put the sandwich on the plate, and you're done. writing activity, kids writing activity, improve my child's writing, composition practise, writing practise...

Year 4

Reading & writing

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Write a Collaborative Story

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!

Year 4

Reading & writing

Activity

Write a Story From an Ant's Perspective

Write a Story From an Ant's Perspective

Here's a writing activity that helps first graders explore an ant's perspective...and practise writing, too!

Year 2

Reading & writing

Activity

Before and After Halloween Acrostic

Before and After Halloween Acrostic

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Year 6

Reading & writing

Activity

Create a Lipogram

Create a Lipogram

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

Year 5

Reading & writing

Activity

Make a Fun Brochure!

Make a Fun Brochure!

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practise persuasive writing.

Year 5

Reading & writing

Activity

Write a Tall Tale

Write a Tall Tale

Help your second grader grasp her understanding of tall tales and practise writing with this activity by writing her own about your family!

Year 4

Reading & writing

Activity

Write a Safety Rules Manual

Write a Safety Rules Manual

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Year 3

Reading & writing

Activity

Write an "I Used To, Now I" Poem

Write an "I Used To, Now I" Poem

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practise his writing skills and word usage as he creates an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Year 3

Reading & writing

Activity

Make a Dialogue Journal!

Make a Dialogue Journal!

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Year 3

Reading & writing

Activity

Write a Concrete Poem For Mom

Write a Concrete Poem For Mom

Boost those year two reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Year 2

Reading & writing

Activity

Gourmet S'mores

Gourmet S'mores

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

Year 4

Reading & writing

Activity

Write an Art Project Proposal

Write an Art Project Proposal

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

Year 6

Reading & writing

Activity

Paint Like Jackson Pollock!

Paint Like Jackson Pollock!

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and colour...and build writing strength, too.

Kindergarten

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!

Year 2

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.

Year 4

Reading & writing

Activity

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