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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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! 

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

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

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.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

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

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

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

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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

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

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