Elementary writing activities

Journaling is a fun & low-pressure way to ease into writing. With that in mind, we’ve created 75 elementary writing prompts to help your students begin writing!

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

Check out these 10 *actually* FUN writing activities for kids of all ages. Engaging and inspiring activities that encourage kids to get hands-on with writing!

Are you looking for something new and exciting to challenge your elementary students? Look no further than these 30 fiction writing prompts! These prompts will inspire your students to flex their imaginations, make new discoveries, and bring their stories to life in a new way. Whether your student is a beginner or a seasoned writer, these prompts are sure to spark their creative writing abilities. #fictionwriting #elementary #journalbuddies

A simple writing activity perfect for back to school! This post explains how to create "Rivers" with your students where they can keep their writing ideas throughout the year! Would work well in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classrooms. #education #writing #teaching

An Upper Elementary Collaborative blog written by 13 teachers. Includes teaching ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5.

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

Space themed writing and grammar activity for early elementary and Key Stage 1. Construct sentences using the Silly Sentence prompts and write a story.

Click through to the blog for 15+ epic writing games kids will love! Writing games make practicing writing feel fun rather than like a chore! These prompts and games will motivate even kids who don't enjoy writing! These games will teach you how to make kids love writing. Everything you need to know is inside!

Teaching opinion writing can be a lot of fun in First Grade. First graders have LOTS of opinions, and they love to share them! Here are a few ideas that have helped me to teach opinion writing to first graders. Start by teaching students how to write a topic sentence. I have found that having an anchor chart with sentence starters for students to refer to is super helpful. I like to create the chart in front of the students. It might look something like this: Once the chart is completed…

This is a free opinion writing worksheet for kindergarten and first grade. Students choose between a hamburger and pizza. It is easy to download instantly.

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This free Kindergarten sentence building and writing center is perfect for practice with making simple sentences for beginning writers!

This is a great graphic organizer for students to learn paragraph writing especially younger ones. As a teacher, I would use this as a starting point or outline for students to write paragraphs until they can handle forming their own essays on their own.

Visualizing the text is such an important reading strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. This reading teacher's blog post shares teaching tips, strategies, activities, and resources for teaching visualizing in your classroom (reading crafts, posters and graphic organizers). Helpful for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade teachers.