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Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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!

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.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

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

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

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

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

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

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

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

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

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

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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

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

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!