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

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

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

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

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

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

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

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

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.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

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.

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

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

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.

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

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

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

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

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