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! 

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

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

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

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

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

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

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.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

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