Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

This game turns prediction, a major component of third grade reading, into a fun game.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

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.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

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

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

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.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

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.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

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

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

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