2nd - 5th Grade Writing Types Activities

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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

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.

Greek mythology offers up some of the most epic tales ever. This Greek mythology tree activity introduces him to some of the main characters in Greek mythology.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

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.

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

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.

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!

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

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

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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

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

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

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

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

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

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?