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

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

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

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

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.

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

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

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

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

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

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

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.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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

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!

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

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

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

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

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

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

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

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.