This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

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

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

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

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

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

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

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

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

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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.

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

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

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

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

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

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

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.

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

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!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.