Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

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

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

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

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

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.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

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

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

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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

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

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.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

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.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

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

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.