Summer Writing Ideas

Dear Parents and Students:

They’re coming! They’re coming. Those wonderfully long days of summer are just around the corner! AND . . . just in case you would like to keep your writing skills polished over the summer, we encourage you to try a sampling of our Summer Writing Ideas.

Try an idea a day or an idea a week. Add your own ideas to the list and write, write, write! Have a great summer.

The CB Elementary Language Arts Committee

/ Write a description of something you ate this week without mentioning the actual food. After writing it, give the description to someone to guess the food.

/ Write descriptive clues for a treasure hunt game with your friends. Be sure they are in logical order.

/ Conduct an interview and publish it.

/ Write a family tree.

/ Write to a pen pal.

/ Write a movie review.

/ Write a book review.

/ Add pizzazz to a parent’s shopping list. (Use descriptive adjectives before each item, ie. perfectly precious plums)

/ Send a note to a special person (teacher, principal, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, cousin, etc.)

/ Draw a picture by describing it in written language.

/ Make a Vacation Photo Essay Scrapbook.

1. Take pictures from vacation.

2. Write a short essay under each picture describing the picture.

3. Make a scrapbook with the pictures and essays.

/ Take pictures of a special event over the summer, such as a baseball game or party. Sequence the pictures using ordinal #’s. Then write a short story with a good beginning, middle, and end.

/ Write a “How-to” for something you enjoyed over your summer.

/ Write a “To-do” list for your parents.

/ Write a friendly letter to a family member who lives out of state. Ask for maps, tourism guides, etc. to learn about the state/country.

/ Write to a friend each week.

/ Write yourself a letter. Date it, and ask someone to send it to you in 5 or more years.

/ Write yourself a letter outlining goals that you would like to set for yourself in the coming school year. Ask someone (parent, teacher) to give you the letter at the end of the year.

/ Write a persuasive letter to your mom or dad, persuading him/her to give you something you really want.

/ Send yourself a post-card from places you visit over the summer. Describe everything using adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. Collect them and put them in a memory book about your summer.

/ Create a brochure about a special place you visited over the summer urging people to visit to that place.

/ Think of a place that you visited or a special event that happened to you. Write an advertisement that would make people want to visit your place or have an event like you did. Use illustrations along with your writing.

/ Keep a daily summer journal of all the places, friends, or relatives you visited.

/ Keep a writer’s notebook/journal over the summer.

/ Write 10 questions you want to ask your teacher on the first day of school.

/ Create a new idea for this list.

1. Add it to the list.

2. Attach your sample.

3. Give it to your teacher in the fall.