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

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

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

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!

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.

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?

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

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.

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

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

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