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4th and 5th Grade Writing Activities : Page 2

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.

Write a Simile Poem ... Starring Your Pet!

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

Write a Funny Limerick

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!

Make a City Guide For Kids!

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Make a Sequence Sandwich!

As Mother&#39;s Day approaches, everyone&#39;s grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Make a Mother's Day Book

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

Pressed Flower Bookmarks

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

 "Yellow Pages" for a New Neighbor

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!

Chanukah Anagram Game

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

A Malala-Inspired Activity: Listicle Blog Posts

A Sonia-Inspired Activity: Poetry Read-Alouds

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?

Rhymes With Orange

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

Teal Pumpkin Project: Spread the Word!

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

Famous African-Americans in History

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

Make a Fun Brochure!

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

Create a Family Movie Guide

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

Writing About Mount Rushmore

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!

Frosty the Snowman Oulipo

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

Color Bugs

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

Write Nutsy News Stories

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Resilience

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

Outer Space Story

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine&#39;s Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Valentine Haiku

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Write a New Ending

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.

Write a Thanksgiving Proclamation!

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

Pantoum Poem

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Be a Detail Artist!

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

Skeltonic Verse

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!

Write Dad a Basketball Message

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

Speak up for the Earth

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Make a Progress Portfolio

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