Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

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.

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

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

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.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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.

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!

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

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.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

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.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

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