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

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

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

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

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

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!

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

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

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

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

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

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!