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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts 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.

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

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

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.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

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.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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