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

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

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

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

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.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

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

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

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

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

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!

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

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.

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

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

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

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.

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?

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

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

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

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

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

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

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