By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

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

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

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

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

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

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

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

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

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

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

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

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

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!

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

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

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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