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Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

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

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!

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?

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

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.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

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

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 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.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

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

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

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

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

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

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

Here's an easy project: create a homework helper bookmark so your fourth grader can write down assignments and mark the pages he needs to read.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

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.

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

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

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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!

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!