Are you ready to embark on a life-changing journey supporting your child/children in becoming powerful writers? Are you looking for writing activities for children with a detailed outline of what is expected in the Elementary years when learning to write? A book that you can open and right before your eyes is a plan to follow with clear steps and examples each step of the way? Well, look no further! Your answer is Not Just Another Kids’ Journal, A Big Book Of Writing Fun.
In the classroom, teaching children to write got me super excited. Helping students move from a place where they were unable to construct meaningful sentences to them being able to craft beautiful stories brought so much joy to their faces and to my heart!
Over the last few years, I have been contacted by many parents trying to find book/resource with writing activities for children that would enhance writing skills and cover the writing genres covered in the elementary years, and I could not find one. So I wrote one!
What is Not Just Another Kid’s Journal?
Not Just Another Kids’ Journal A Big Book Of Writing Fun contains over 200 writing activities for children and will give your child repeated practice while working through the writing process. Each section includes checklists and examples that you can review with your child in order to give them the support they need as they journey through this educational and fun book.
Below is a list of what is in our big book of writing fun, Not Just Another Kids’ Journal.
All writing genres have written examples and a list of skills defined with examples that you can use to assist your child/ student on their learning journey. In each section of our book, Not Just Another Kids’ Journal A Big Book Of Writing Fun, your child will be given numerous opportunities to practice the genre they are focusing on.
Writing actives included:
- Narrative writing: (Personal narrative/recount) As a non-fiction text type, recounts are used to provide an account of events of a personal experience, the lives of specific people, and/or a specific factual occurrence. Examples of a recount may include a child writing about his/her last vacation or a day they will never forget.
- Report writing: The primary purpose of a report is to inform a reader, which is done through the description, providing information, and/or summarising of an event. Reports tend to present information in an objective way. The descriptions contained in reports can be general or specific and usually include details about a specific topic, such as green sea turtles. In report writing, information is well organised through the use of text features like headings and subheadings.
- Journal prompts: Journal prompts that are created in fun ways to be used on a daily or weekly basis.
- Procedural writing: Procedural writing explains to the reader how to do something through a series of precise steps. Procedural writing is accessible to young writers. Examples of procedural writing include instructions for making something, rules of a game or recipes.
- Opinion writing: (Persuasive) The primary purpose of persuasive writing is to persuade the reader of a particular position/belief or to take action. Persuasive texts may aim to inspire a certain behaviour or action in a reader, such as: making healthy choices or getting more playtime.
- Letter writing: Example page with the parts of a letter with prompts following for children to put what they learn about letter writing into practice in a fun and engaging way.
- Fun pages: Pages that are structured to encourage children to have fun as they write.
These areas of writing will prepare any child for writing success at school or at home!
What age group is Not Just Another Kids’ Journal, A Big Book Of Writing Fun For?
Our book is for students who are in Grades 3-6. The writing activities are open-ended and can be utilised with children who are just learning to write or children who are already writing and need some support. (The writing activities were created with developmental differences of children in mind.)
What will your child learn when using Not Just Another Kids’ Journal A Big Book Of Writing Fun?
The primary goal of writing instruction is to provide students with a means to effectively express ideas, feelings and emotions on paper and on screen. This overarching goal is supported by three additional instructional goals.
When children are supported as they use Not Just Another Kids’ Journal, A Big Book Of Writing Fun, they will learn to:
- Write clearly and creatively to convey a message.
- Understand that writing is a reflective and interactive process.
- Understand the different purposes, audiences, text types and forms of writing
How will I be able to support and teach my child/children using Not Just Another Kids’ Journal,A Big Book Of Writing Fun?
In Not Just Another Kids’ Journal A Big Book Of Writing Fun, each section outlines:
- The type of writing your child/children will be working on
- A checklist of what should be included with that type of writing.
- Words that should be included in the text type
- A list of topics your child can write about
- A detailed example of what is expected for you to use as a guide or for your child/children to emulate the strategies in their own writing.
- A writing plan that must be completed before each major writing activity. Your child will be given the opportunity to brainstorm ideas, consider the purpose and goal of their writing, connect ideas and begin to form a coherent structure for what they will write.
These are the steps that have been put in place to make this book of writing activities helpful in supporting children with the writing process.
Here is a sneak peek of some of the writing activities inside our book Not Just Another Kids’ Journal, A Big Book Of Writing Fun
Three of the journal pages that are included in Not Just Another Kids’ Journal A Big Book Of Writing Fun.
There are writing activities included that will prompt your child/children to go outside to seek information in order to complete them.
There are so many fun pages in our book Not Just Another Kids’ Journal A Big Book Of Writing Fun that will keep your child/children busy writing and having fun as they do so!
Our book Not Just Another Kids’ Journal A Big Book Of Writing Fun has so many activities, and journal prompts that will require your child/children to share important details about themselves in a fun and straightforward way!
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This is an absolutely great resource for teaching the different writing styles. My girls love the different activities inside.