Elementary writing activities

Discover fresh, fun, new writing games and use them to help students improve their writing skills while also enjoying themselves!

Follow this step-by-step lesson plan to teach your students how

Looking for ways to motivate students to write? Get 20 creative ideas for writing activities for kids, including writing prompts, story starters, author visits, lessons, printable, and fun projects. Perfect ideas for 3rd grade writing, 4th grade writing, and 5th grade writing in the upper elementary classroom. Helpful for teachers!

Get your students reading and writing this summer with these fun and engaging enrichment activities for elementary grades.

The Sentence Game Let’s face it, writing is hard. It takes lots and lots of practice to master the many skills a writer needs. But practice can be boring. Not now! I’ve created a sentence writing game your kids will love. With this game they’ll write sentence after sentence without complaining, because it’s a game. It’s very simple, but practices very essential skills- capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling. The game can be played with 2 or more players. There’s even a way to…

Do you have struggling writers who just don't seem to be growing? Do you have reluctant writers who don't seem to get much writing completed? In every class that I have ever taught, there has always been a handful of kiddos that just don't like writing. These students can be toughest to reach. You have

150+ fun, creative and thoughtful 4th grade writing prompts to encourage children to express their thoughts and feelings.

Does your child get anxious as they start a writing assignment when they're staring at a blank sheet of paper? StoryBuilders is a wonderful tool for answering the question most homeschool moms have heard, "what

Ready to rock teaching beginning of year writing in first grade? These early days of writing instruction must be targeted and on point. Click to learn more.