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

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

This simple way to help your child understand story problems begins as a quick activity and turns into a study tool for years to come!

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

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.

Have your child try her hand at creating a colorful, beaded necklace that's not only stylish, but also tells a story.

In this activity, your child will reflect on and write a story about a person who has embodied integrity and honesty in their life.

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.

Children will reflect on the importance of performing acts of kindness for the Earth, hear a story about easy ways they can care for the Earth, and set goals to conserve more in their everyday lives.

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

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

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.

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

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

Your child will reflect on the term "beauty" and the things they are grateful for. They will read the book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and reflect on how focusing on the small and big things of beauty around them can benefit themselves and others.

Understanding how to make positive choices about where to put our money and time is a valuable lesson us all! Children strengthen their responsible decision-making skills by learning about consumerism and its effects on society and the environment.

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

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!

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

Physical touch through tapping and hugging can be a wonderful way to regulate emotions. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will explore the power of tapping or hugging to help them calm down and relieve feelings of stress or anxiety.

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

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

Children will deepen their understanding of global citizenship and create a collage that illustrates all of the ways many communities are connected.

This science fair project idea discovers whether there are some objects that do not fall at a constant rate.

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

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

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

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!