Elementary School Writing Activities : Page 4

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

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

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

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

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!

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.

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

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

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!

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

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