Preschool - 2nd Grade Personal Narrative Writing Activities

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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!

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

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

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

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

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.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

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