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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

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.

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

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

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

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.

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

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

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

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

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!

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

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."

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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