In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

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

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

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

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

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

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

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

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

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

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.