Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

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

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

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

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

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!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Combine a recycling craft with ABC practice with this homemade foam craft idea.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

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

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Help your kindergartener practice letter strokes while experimenting with the painting style of the great artist Mondrian.

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

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

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

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

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