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

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

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.

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

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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

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

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

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

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

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