Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

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

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

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

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

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.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

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.

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.

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

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

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

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.

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.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

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

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, 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.

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

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

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

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

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

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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