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

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:

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

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

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

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

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

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!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

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

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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

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

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.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

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

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

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

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

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

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

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

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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