Writing Activities for Kids

Gazillions of free writing exercises using Story Spinner, a writer's wheel of ideas created by Bonnie Neubauer.

Make learning fun (and sneaky) by mixing it up with magazines!

This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a character in a book or as a prewriting exercise when creating characters for original stories.

Nice ideas from Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord. 

Polyphony H.S.An International Student-Run Literary Magazine For High School Writers and Editors...

In this interactive, we are going to explore the different elements that go into stories and make them so much fun.  We are going to start by reading "Cinderella".  Then we will look at all the different pieces of the tale, to see how they all fit together.

Writing prompts for student's daily journal...

ABCya! Computer Lab: Language Arts - Type a Friendly Letter | This interactive activity helps students to learn the five parts of a friendly letter. By following the step by step guide, students can create a letter and then print it.

If you’d like to write some Christmas letters, to Santa, the Angels or maybe just to friends and family, I have made a Christmas version of my kids letter writing set.