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

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.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

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

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

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!

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

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

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

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

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

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!

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.

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?

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

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!

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

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

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!

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

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

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

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

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

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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