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Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

This activity will have your child learning about dependent and independent clauses, not to mention the punctuation that goes in the middle.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!