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

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!

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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

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

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

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!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

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

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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.

Multiplication facts are a necessary skill, and this board game provides a fun way for your third grader to practice them!

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

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:

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

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

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

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