This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

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

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

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

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

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

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

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

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

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

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

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.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

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!