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Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

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

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

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!

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

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!

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

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

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.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

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.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

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.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.