Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

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

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

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!

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

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!

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

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.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

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

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

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

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

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

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 child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

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!

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

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.