This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

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.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

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

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

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

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

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

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!

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

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

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

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

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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!

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:

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

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

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

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