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Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

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!

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

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

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

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

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.