4th Grade Writing Types Activities

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

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.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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!

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

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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!

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