A+ Writing for Kids in 3 Steps

Make practicing writing fun with these 3 simple steps including writing prompts, writing games, and even making your own book with Lulu Jr.

A+ Writing for Kids in 3 Steps - Great suggestions, resources, and ideas for helping elementary age kids learn to write well! Great for summer learning, teachers, and homeschooling.





We all know it is important for kids to write well.







How well they write will directly impact their future job, income potential, and even how well they can express themselves in general.







Help kids learn, practice, and improve their writing with these 5 simple and effective tools:










Step 1 - Practice Makes Perfect





Kids need regular practice writing.



Regular writing will give kids the chance to sound out words, begin forming sentences, and to write based on a thought or topic.



Their writing doesn’t all need to be corrected, and actually it shouldn’t all be corrected.  You want kids to try and enjoy writing. Making mistakes is part of learning.  Kids will hopefully being to feel more comfortable and enjoy writing.





Ideas for helping kids practice writing:












Step 2 - Improve Writing





Give kids the tools they need to write by helping them learn to spell, practice punctuation, and build sentences. This should be included in whatever curriculum your kids use at school or in homeschool. Here are some fun practice games and worksheets:




When they have the basics, help them form good paragraphs with topic sentences, 3-4 supporting sentences, and using a thesaurus to use “better” words.



Make sure that at least once a week you help go over something they wrote to help them find spelling errors, missing punctuation, capitalization errors, etc.  They do need to learn to correct their work, just not everything they write.








Step 3 -  Celebrate their Writing





Put everything kids have worked on together to make a fun, memorable book with Lulu Jr. 

It “the old days” kids would just write several sheets, add a picture to a make a front cover and staple it together. Well, it’s not the olden days anymore! 



kid made book is perfect for kids to practice their writing and story telling



Kids can now publish their very own book that is not only fun to make, but a great tool to improve writing, and a precious keepsake.


  • Up to 28 pages

  • Printed with child’s handwriting or typed

  • Use markers provided to make vivid illustrations

  • Professional bound

  • Hard cover

  • Title page

  • Dedication Page

  • About the Author

  • (We used the IlluStory kit)




Super cool, right? Plus it’s affordable and you can easily order additional copies which make fantastic Christmas presents for Grandparents!









My son has been working all this year in 3rd grade to improve his writing. We had already learned to write good sentences, punctuation and what-not in 1st and 2nd grade. But this year we really worked on making good paragraphs, topic sentences, supporting sentences, and use better words we found in a thesaurus. This amazing keepsake book from Lulu Jr. was the perfect project to showcase all that he had accomplished.



My son is so proud of his book. And we are amazed with how much he has accomplished. What a treasured keepsake!










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These are great keepsake for families, summer learning fun, homeschoolers, or even bulk orders for schools!







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Beth Gorden is a homeschooling mother of six who strives to enjoy every moment with her kids through hands-on learning, crafts, new experiences, and lots of playing together. Beth is also the creator and author of 123 Homeschool 4 Me where she shares 1000+ free printables, creative homeschool lessons, crafts, and other fun ideas to help preschool and homeschooling families have fun while learning and exploring together.