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

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.

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

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

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

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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

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

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.

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

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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

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

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

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.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

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.

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

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

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

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

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

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.