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.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

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.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

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

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

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

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

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

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!