Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

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

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

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

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

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

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

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

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

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

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

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

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

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

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

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

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

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