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

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

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

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

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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

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

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

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

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

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.

Greek mythology offers up some of the most epic tales ever. This Greek mythology tree activity introduces students to some of the main characters in Greek mythology.

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!

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.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.