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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!

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

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

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

This activity will have your child learning about dependent and independent clauses, not to mention the punctuation that goes in the middle.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.