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

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.

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!

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

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

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

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

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.