Elementary School Writing Activities : Page 3

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

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

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

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.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

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

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!

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

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

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

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

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

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

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.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

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