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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.

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

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

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

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

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.

Creating a family newspaper is a great way to teach your child the characteristics of a newspaper article, give him or her some excellent writing practice.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

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

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

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

This science fair project idea explores whether a person's ability to see under very dim lighting conditions diminishes with age.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The purpose of this science fair project is to determine whether Green Bags, with or without refrigeration, are most effective in preserving food.