Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."