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

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.

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!

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

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.

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

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

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

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

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

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