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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

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!

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.

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.

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

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

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

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

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

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