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

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

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!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

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

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

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

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

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

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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

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!

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

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

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

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

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.

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

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

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