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Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Here's a review of some common (and commonly confused) grammar terms, as well as a quick activity to apply them to reading and writing.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

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

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

This activity will have your child learning about dependent and independent clauses, not to mention the punctuation that goes in the middle.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

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

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

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

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Help your first grader understand what a noun is with this fun photo book that catalogs her favorite people, places, and things!

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

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.

Encourage your reluctant writer to build creativity with a found poem, which is written by rearranging bits and pieces of other peopleâs writing.

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.

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

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!