Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

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

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

The project determines which laundry detergent is best for cleaning clothes.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

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

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

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.

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

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.

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.

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

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

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.