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Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

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.

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

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

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.

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.

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

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

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

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