Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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

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

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

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

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.

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

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

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

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.

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

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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.

Multiplication facts are a necessary skill, and this board game provides a fun way for your third grader to practice them!

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

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

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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.

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

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

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

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

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

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

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.