Resources
If you’re looking for ideas of things your child can write about, consider some of these writing prompts.
Typing
Now’s a great time to have your child hone typing skills! Here are some sources for typing practice:
- KidzType
- Typing.com
- Online typing games from Education.com
Writing Activities and Lessons
826 Digital is a site that has lessons and activities to promote writing, as well as a space for young people to publish their writing. They have put together Resources to Write Bravely From Anywhere (Grades 1-8).
Toontastic is a free storytelling apps for younger children
Finish this comic strip and other resources for drawing and writing
Printable storycubes to help students tell and write stories
Resources for writing poetry, including Poem in your Pocket day (April 30, 2020)
Build your own magnetic poetry
Storium is an online creative writing game that lets writers play their way to a collaborative story (grades 8-12)
Youth (13 and older) can add their voice to the conversations sparked by the PBS documentary film American Creed