If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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 third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!

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:

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

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

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

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

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

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

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

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