Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

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.

Confused about clauses? Get the concept to stick by helping your middle schooler make mix-and-match poetry dice filled with independent and dependent clauses.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

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.

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

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

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Identifying angles may sound intimidating, but with this exercise, you can turn your child into an expert angler in no time!

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

This experiment explores how listening in to a one-sided conversation affects concentration.

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

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

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! 

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

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.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

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