Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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

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

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

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

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

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

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

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

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

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

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.