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

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

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

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

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

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

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

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

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

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.

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

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.