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4th and 5th Grade Writing Activities : Page 2

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Write a Silly Dinosaur Poem

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Write a Thanksgiving Day Poem

As Mother&#39;s Day approaches, everyone&#39;s grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Make a Mother's Day Book

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?

Rhymes With Orange

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.

Write a Secret Sentence Poem

A Sonia-Inspired Activity: Poetry Read-Alouds

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine&#39;s Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Valentine Haiku

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

Create a Family Movie Guide

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

Write an Art Project Proposal

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Apostrophe Poem

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

Outer Space Story

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

Fill in the Blanks

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

Speak up for the Earth

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

A Malala-Inspired Activity: Listicle Blog Posts

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

Color Bugs

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

Pressed Flower Bookmarks

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Make Rudolph-Themed Metaphors

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Pantoum Poem

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

 "Yellow Pages" for a New Neighbor

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.

Tanka Poem

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

Be Grateful

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!

Chanukah Anagram Game

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

Sensory Poem: Halloween

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!

Frosty the Snowman Oulipo

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

Before and After Halloween Acrostic

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Write Nutsy News Stories

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and  rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Skeltonic Verse

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.

Write a New Ending

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

Practice Reading by Getting Into Character!

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

Shoe Sketch

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