With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

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

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

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

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

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

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.

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

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

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

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

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

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

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

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.