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

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

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

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

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

Meant to be fun and inspiring, Oulipo N+7 challenges writers to create new writing, use language and enriches vocabulary, spelling and critical thinking.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

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

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

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

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

How can you get your child started if they're totally stumped? All it takes is a solid plan, man. Here's how to get started.

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.

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

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

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

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

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

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!

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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.

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.