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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!

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

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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!

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

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.

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.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

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

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

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

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

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.

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

Here's an easy project: create a homework helper bookmark so your fourth grader can write down assignments and mark the pages he needs to read.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

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

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

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!