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Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

Multiplication facts are a necessary skill, and this board game provides a fun way for your third grader to practice them!

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

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

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

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

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

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

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

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

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

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

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

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

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!

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!

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!

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

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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.

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