Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

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

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

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

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

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

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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.

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

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

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

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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

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

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

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

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

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

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

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