Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

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!

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

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! 

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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.

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

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

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

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

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!

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

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.

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.