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This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

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

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

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

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

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

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

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

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

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

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

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

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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

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!

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

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.