Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

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! 

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

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

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

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

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

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!

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

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: