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

Write Nutsy News Stories

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

Create a Family Movie Guide

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.

Stuffed Animal Birth Certificate

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

Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words

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

Backyard Field Guide

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Take Action Like Greta

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Make Rudolph-Themed Metaphors

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

Write a Seasonal Alphabet Poem

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 an Animal Folk Tale

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!

Frosty the Snowman Oulipo

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Make Your Own Passport

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.

Write a Pet Sitter Guide

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Make a Paper Bag Book

Help Mother&#39;s Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Mother's Day Coupons

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

Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique

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

Fact Versus Fiction

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!

Create a Family How-to Guide

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Write a Simile Poem ... Starring Your Pet!

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Write a New Ending

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

Pet ID

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Make a Travel Journal

Here&#39;s an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child&#39;s pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Write a Going Green Plan

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

When I Grow Up I Want To Be...

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Make a Career Book!

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Create Your Own Pumpkin Person!

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

Spark a Story

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.

St. Patrick's Day Haiku

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

How to Write a Scary Story

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Pencil Toppers

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Who is Santa Claus? An Adjective Activity

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