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

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

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 activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

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

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

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

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

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

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

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

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

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

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