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

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

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!

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

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

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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.

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

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

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

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

Confused about clauses? Get the concept to stick by helping your middle schooler make mix-and-match poetry dice filled with independent and dependent clauses.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.