Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

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

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

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.

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

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.

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

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

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

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

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

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

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

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.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

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

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.