Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Creating a family newspaper is a great way to teach your child the characteristics of a newspaper article, give him or her some excellent writing practice.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

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

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

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

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.

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

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

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

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

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

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

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.

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

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

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

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

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.

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

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

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

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!