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

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.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

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

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

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

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

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

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.

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

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.

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

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

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

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

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.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.