Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

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

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

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! 

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

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

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

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

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

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

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

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

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

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

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!

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

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.