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Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

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

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.