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.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

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?

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

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

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

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

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!

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

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

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!

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

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

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

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

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

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!

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

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 activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

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

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