Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

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

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

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

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.

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.

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

Determine if each hemisphere specializes in dealing with specific functions. Include illustrations of the brain, it hemispheres.

Study the anatomy of the brain and the functions of the corpus callosum. Research split brain surgery and its impact on advances in neuroscience.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

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

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

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!

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

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

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

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

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

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

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