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.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

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.

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

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

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

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

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

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

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

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

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!