Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

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.

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

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.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

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!

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.