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

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

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

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.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

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

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

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

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

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

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

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

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

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

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

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!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

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

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

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

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

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.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.