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Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

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.

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

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

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

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

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

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.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!