Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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 fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

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

The goal of this science fair project is to evaluate the effect of heat on sound wave frequency.

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.

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

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

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

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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

This science fair project idea provide quantitative data about how well the use of ASL ( American Sign Language) works in communicating with babies.

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.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

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

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

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

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

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

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

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

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!