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

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

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

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

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

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.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

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.

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

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

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.

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

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

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

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

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

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

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!

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!

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

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

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.