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

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

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

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

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

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

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

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

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

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.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

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

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

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.

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

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

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

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

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

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.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

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

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

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!

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

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!