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

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.

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

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

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

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

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

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.

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

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

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

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.

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