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

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

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

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."

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

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

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

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

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

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

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

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.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

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! 

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

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.

This game turns prediction, a major component of third grade reading, into a fun game.