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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

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!

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

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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!

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!

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

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

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

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