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Literacy Activities
The Great Save: Exploring Costs and Savings
Using a story about a family that must save to buy something it wants, this activity gets children to think about money that comes in and the choices involved in deciding how to spend—or save—it.
Fairy Tales and You
Events from children’s lives become the basis for personalized fairy tales that can be published, read aloud, or performed for others.
Write “Moving” Sports Poetry
We've all heard the expression “poetry in motion”—this activity gets children writing poems about grace and movement using photos of athletes.
Let’s Play a Game
Playing board games or card games can be a fun activity, so why not make your own?
Create Trading Cards for Favorite Characters
Use the online Character Trading Cards tool to have children make cards describing their favorite characters from the books on their reading list.
Exploring the Library
Visit your local public library for many fun activities you can complete together. If you can’t get to a library, visit one online!
Creating Family Timelines
Interview family members and make an illustrated timeline of the most important family events and memories.
Write a Recipe
Use recipes to help children practice reading and writing step-by-step instructions. Have them sample the results to see how they did.
Mail Time!
Sort through your junk mail with a child and discuss what you find before you toss it in the recycling bin!
Write Shape Poems
Use shape poems, or poems that look like the things they describe, as a fun way to introduce children to poetry.
Start Your Own Book Club
With two or more friends, invite a child to create a book club, then read and discuss books together.
Telling My Story: Make a Bio-Cube
Let children explore an interesting subject—themselves. An online tool will teach them to summarize and organize information as they write.
Take a Virtual Field Trip
Can’t make it to a zoo? Observe animal habits and habitats using one of the many webcams broadcasting from zoos and aquariums around the United States and the world.
Explore and Write About Nature
Get children outside and encourage them to explore the world around them. In this activity, children look closely at living things in their natural environments and then make books about what they see.
Creating Comics and Cartoons!
Many children enjoy reading cartoons in the newspaper or looking at comic books. Work together with a child and create new ones to enjoy and share!
Send Postcards From the Concert
Have children practice combining sentences using initial impressions of music. The finished message goes on an illustrated postcard.
Read All About It: Neighborhood News
After exploring newspapers, help children publish one of their own with the news of the neighborhood.
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