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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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

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

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

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

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

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

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

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

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

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

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

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.

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

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

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.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

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.