Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

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

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

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.

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

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

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

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

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

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

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

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

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

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

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

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