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Practice Writing Letters and Words
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Activities & Projects
Grades K – 2 | Activity & Project
Practice Letters and Sounds Using Online Games
Find three fun online games that are designed to help children learn to recognize letters and how they sound.
Grades K – 2 | Activity & Project
Show children a fun way to practice their ABCs using summer words in an alphabet book.
Grades K – 2 | Activity & Project
Note Writing at a Message Center
In this activity, children write short everyday notes, to remind, plan, request, or compliment others.
Grades K – 2 | Activity & Project
Encourage children to connect words and pictures by having them write their own captions for family or magazine photos.
Grades K – 2 | Activity & Project
Writing and Math with Shopping Lists
Children will use a variety of mathematics and literacy skills as they create shopping lists to use at the store to buy their favorite treats.
Games & Tools
Grades K – 5 | Game & Tool
The Alphabet Organizer lets children create a calendar-style ABC chart or letter pages for an alphabet book.
Grades K – 2 | Game & Tool
Construct-a-Word has children select single letters and two- or three-letter endings to form words.
Grades K – 2 | Game & Tool
The ABC Match game challenges children to match letter cards and picture cards that begin with that letter.
Printouts
Grades K – 2 | Printout | Writing It Out
Children who are learning to read and write letters and words will love making their very own ABC book.
Grades K – 1 | Printout | Word Play
This activity helps children learn to recognize letters and their sounds, and to associate sounds and letters with words.
Grades K – 2 | Printout | Writing It Out
Channel children’s fondness for talking about their own lives into a creative project by helping them write an autobiography.