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.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

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.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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

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

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.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

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

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

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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 your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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!

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

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

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

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

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

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

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