Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

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

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

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

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

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

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

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! 

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

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

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.

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

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

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.

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

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

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

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

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

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.

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

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.