In this activity, you and your child will read a story about heartfulness, practice heartfulness by sending kind wishes to others, and draw pictures of those you both love and care for (such as family members, friends, or pets).

Determination can go along way, especially in difficult times. In this home activity, your child will hear the true story of Ivy, the very determined dog, who plays, loves, and runs, just like the other dogs, even though she does not have the ability to

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

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

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

In this activity, your child will write stories about two different people. The stories will include similarities and differences in the ways each person lives in their communities.

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.

Children get creative with this fun, imaginative activity that combines an upcycled everyday household item with a few craft supplies.

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

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

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

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Help your child get more comfortable with rhyme schemes with The Bear in Despair by Amanda Bray Cody.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

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.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Using beautiful oil pastels and their own wild imagination, your child will come up with their own spooky, spectacular, or spine-tingling monster.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

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

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

Practice measurement and proportion with your first grader, and in the process, make three scrumptious salads for you and your child to share on Mother's Day!