In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

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!

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

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

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

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 second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

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

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

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

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

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

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.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

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