This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

In this inspiring activity, children create and perform their very own Reader’s Theater about helping the planet!

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.

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

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

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.

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.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

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

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Make this spring break a memorable one by creating a "growth" flower with your child, also great for your second grader's writing practice!

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

Children get creative with this fun, imaginative activity that combines an upcycled everyday household item with a few craft supplies.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

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

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Check out this cool science project idea to learn about rocks and explore the cycles of formation, breakdown, and reformation of rocks in the Earth's crust.

This science fair project idea determines if crystals will absorb food dye and if colors will mix by the process of diffusion.