Writing Activities

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

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what he observes around him into a beautiful poem. Develop his writing skills and his creativity.

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

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

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

Create this quick and easy craft with your kindergarten child, and then let his imagination float free as he writes about it!

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

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

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

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

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

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

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

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