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

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

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.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

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

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

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.

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!

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

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

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

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

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

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!

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

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

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.