Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

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

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

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

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.

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!

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

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

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

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

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

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

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.

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

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

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

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

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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