Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

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!

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

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

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

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

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! 

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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

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

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

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

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

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.

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

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

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

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!

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

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.