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.

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

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

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

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

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

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?

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

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

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.

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

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

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.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

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

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

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

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

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

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

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

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

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

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