Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

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.

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.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

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!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

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

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

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

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.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

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

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

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.