Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

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

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

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.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

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

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

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

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

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

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

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

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.

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

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

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

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.

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

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

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!

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

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.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.