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

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, 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.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

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.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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.

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

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

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

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

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.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.