Writing elementary activities

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

Are you teaching letter writing to your 1st & 2nd grade students? Check out these prompts and activities to help introduce the 5 parts of the friendly letter! This packet includes a writing checklist, teacher/student response activities, writing papers, and a rubric for easy marking! Great for your primary writing center!

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…

by Jarrett Lerner I’ve been wanting to make an activity book for years now. Something that could help kids – and kids-at-heart! – explore and develop their creativity, and turn to as a source for r…

A fun and engaing, problem solving spelling word game. No prep - simply print and play to learn. Use with any spelling word list.

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

Do you find yourself answering questions about the directions that you just gave your class? Does your voice get hoarse from repeating yourself? Do you feel like you have tried everything but still your students aren't listening? Observe your class during their lesson with the librarian or school counselor. Look for signs of active listening. Sometimes we assume that our students are actively listening when they are quiet. This isn't always true. Listening is a skill like reading or playing…

Developing students’ writing takes practice and hard work throughout the year, and it can be difficult to transition young students’ basic writing into detailed and descriptive sentences. Teaching early writing components such as expanding sentences, beginning paragraphs, identifying topic...

Are you looking for a way to help your early elementary students with their writing? K-2 students need a lot of support and guidance when it comes to writing skills for kids. Inside my blog, you will learn about my primary writing checklist. It will help the writing skills for primary students. I love that my students can be independent with writing activities. Teaching writing in elementary school has never been easier with this writing checklist for first grade.