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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!

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

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.

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!

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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

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

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

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

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

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

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

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

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

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

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

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!

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.