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Young learners building their literary skills will benefit from both group and individual writing activities. Collaborative writing activities like recipe and story crafting bring students together to constructively critique grammar and spelling. Solo writing activities like poetry or journaling help develop individual creativity. The Education.com writing activities shared below offer students a variety of options to develop their writing skills.

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WritingAbout Mount Rushmore

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

A WritingExercise

Develop his WritingSkills and his creativity.

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!

: A WritingActivity

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

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 WritingSkills

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A WritingGame

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A WritingGame

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Write a Collaborative Story

This fun WritingActivity takes a regular task - WritingA story - and transforms it into a collaborative WritingExperience for hilarious results!

Write a Story From an Ant's Perspective

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

Before and After Halloween Acrostic

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

Create a Lipogram

This activity strengthens WritingAnd language skills.

Make a Fun Brochure!

A great way to practise persuasive Writing.

Write a Tall Tale

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

Write a Safety Rules Manual

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

Write an "I Used To, Now I" Poem

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

Make a Dialogue Journal!

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

Write a Concrete Poem For Mom

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

Gourmet S'mores

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

Write an Art Project Proposal

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

Paint Like Jackson Pollock!

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

Make an ALL ABOUT ME! Book

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

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