Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

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

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

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.

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

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

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 adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

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.

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.

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.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

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.

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!

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

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

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

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

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

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.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.