Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

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.

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."

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

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Determine if each hemisphere specializes in dealing with specific functions. Include illustrations of the brain, it hemispheres.

Science fair project that determines whether brain size is correlated with intelligence.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Study the anatomy of the brain and the functions of the corpus callosum. Research split brain surgery and its impact on advances in neuroscience.

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

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

How can you get your child started if they're totally stumped? All it takes is a solid plan, man. Here's how to get started.

This science project idea determines how people recognize words while reading.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

Greek mythology offers up some of the most epic tales ever. This Greek mythology tree activity introduces students to some of the main characters in Greek mythology.

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Show your teen how to create silly limericks--cheery comic verses that probably originated in Limerick, Ireland--of her own.

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

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

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

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

The objective of this science fair project idea is to explore which brands of "anti-fade" shampoos work the best to keep hair color looking fresh.

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.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.