10 Amazing Writing Activities and Resources for Kids
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Don’t you love finding new ideas and resources? (I shudder to imagine my life without the Internet!)
So, today I’m sharing amazing writing resources and ideas for the young writers in your life. Comment and tell me your favorites, or add links of your own.
DIY Postcards – Modern Parents Messy Kids
Scribblitt – kids write and publish their own stories
Graphic Organizers and Text Structures – Writing Fun
Write Rhymes – enter a word and find it’s rhymes
Newspaper Blackout Poems – Learning Parade, a delightful way to “find” a poem!
Resources for Young Writers – The Creative Penn
To Plot or Not to Plot? – The Amazing Wordtamer, an interactive game for readers and writers.
Learning Activities for Early Digital Literacy – ICT Learning Innovation Centre
Word of Thanks: Ocean Habitat from Compendium – Sea-themed note card thank you notes that motivate my kids to write. Stickers, apparently, are quite essential to great thank you notes!
And also . . .
100 Best Children’s Books of All Time – this article gave me carpal tunnel in both hands so I hope you read it so it will be worth it.
I think one of the lost arts is hand-writing thank you notes, or any letter for that matter. It’s such a joy when a student proudly holds up their writing piece and exclaims ‘look what I’ve done!’ or ‘I can’t wait to give this to so-and-so!’
Don’t forget the wonderful National Novel Writing Month’s Young Writers Program! ywp.nanowrimo.org. Can’t say enough about this resource!
thanks, Gwyn – have you done it with kids before?
Yes I have Melissa! My daughter started participating in National Novel Writing Month 2 years ago when she was 6. She wrote her first book that year – a picture book, and followed up last year with a chapter book. She’s hooked now, selling and promoting her books. She’s even doing a series of 2 minute films in which she talks about the craft of writing (to be released at the end of this month). You can check out what she’s doing at http://www.evaridenhour.com. Really, National Novel Writing Month has changed her life. Good folks over there, producing outrageously good materials.
These are awesome! Thanks for sharing.
i like the thank you cards…i’ll be getting those.
Thanks so much for the mention Melissa!