Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Your child can count down the days until Christmas while giving Santa's beard a trim. This adorable project bolsters counting and number recognition skills.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

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

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

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

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

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

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.

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

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.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

Lacing is a great way to practice hand-eye coordination, which helps with writing. Turn it into a fun preschool art project, by stringing up some ABCs!

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

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

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