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Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

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

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

After the party and presents, there's just one more thing for your child to do: thank you notes!

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

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

Your little one can welcome the reindeer with an adorable reindeer portrait all while learning the difference between small, medium and large.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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

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

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

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

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

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