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

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

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

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.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

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

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

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

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!

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

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!

Check out this hot project idea to culture bacteria and determine if the claims about the anti-bacterial properties of curry and cinnamon are true.

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

The purpose of this science project is to investigate which will grow larger plants: compost, soil and Miracle - Gro, a mixture of both.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Discover which absorbent material is the best; the Shamwow, paper towels, or cotton towels.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

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.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

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.

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.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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