Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

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

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

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

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

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

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

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

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

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

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

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

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

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

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