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

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

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.

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

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

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

This sunshiny art project is perfect for a rainy day and it helps preschoolers with fine motor skills.

As your child plays photographer, snapping pictures around the yard, he'll also be practicing recognizing letter sounds, which will help him learn to read.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

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

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

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

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! 

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.