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!

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

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.

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! 

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!

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.