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

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

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

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

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

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

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!

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

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