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Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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!

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Show your teen how to create silly limericks--cheery comic verses that probably originated in Limerick, Ireland--of her own.

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

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Make a photo essay! This fun middle school photography activity makes creative writing come to life by turning words into pictures.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Free science fair project idea that examines cheating in school-age children. Project involves a task in which children are tested on various tasks.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Science fair project that determines whether brain size is correlated with intelligence.

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

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.