4th and 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.

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.

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

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.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.