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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

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.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

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!

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

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

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

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

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!