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.

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

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

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

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

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

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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