Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

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

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

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

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

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.

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

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

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.

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

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

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

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

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

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

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

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

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

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

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

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.