Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

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

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

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

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.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

How can you get your child started if they're totally stumped? All it takes is a solid plan, man. Here's how to get started.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

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.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

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.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.

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

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.