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

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

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

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.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

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

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

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

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

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

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.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

The goal of this science fair project was to examine how different angles of decline affect the tipping point of a vehicle.

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.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

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

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

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

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