Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

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

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

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! 

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

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.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

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.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

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

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

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

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

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

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

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

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

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

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

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!