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

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!

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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

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

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

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:

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

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

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.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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.

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!

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.