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

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

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

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

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.

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

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."

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?

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

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

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.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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