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Mastering writing skills is simple when your child can Fish Me a Word or Go Fishing for Grammar, depending on their grade-level. If your child is learning to write, let them have some fun with reading activities like Vocabulary Bingo. If it’s time to get a little more mobile, enhance your child’s understanding of consonants and vowels by sending them outside on a Consonant Blend Scavenger Hunt.

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Create a Family How-to Guide

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!

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

Write a List Poem

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

Create a Family Movie Guide

Encourage your fourth grader to develop her critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

Frosty the Snowman Oulipo

Have a bookworm on your hands? She'll boost her spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words

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

Lacing is a great way to practice hand-eye coordination, which helps with writing. Turn it into a fun preschool art project, by stringing up some ABCs!

Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique

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

Write a New Ending

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

Make Your Own Passport

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Make Days of the Week Flip Flaps

With these days of the week flip flaps, your child has the chance to explore days of the week, track special and routine activities, and practice writing time.

Make a Patterned Story

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.

"See" the Alphabet with Your Body!

Is your kindergartener learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Make a Paper Bag Book

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!

Mother's Day Coupons

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

Fact Versus Fiction

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

Make Your Own Seed Packets

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.

Make a Travel Journal

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.

Build Family Mailboxes!

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Fairy Tale Dice

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your kindergartener to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve his reading and writing skills while he's at it.

Play Nursery Rhyme Madlibs!

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Write a Postcard From Africa

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Write a Seasonal Alphabet Poem

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

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