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Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

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!

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

This science fair project idea raises awareness of a real ecological issue.

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

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!

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

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.

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!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

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

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

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

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

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

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!