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

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

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

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

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

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

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

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

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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

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.

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

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.

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

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

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

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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