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Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

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

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

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

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

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

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Will storing cucumbers and tomatoes in the fridge destroy their unique flavors? Find out in this science fair project idea!

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

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.

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

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

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

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Here's a review of some common (and commonly confused) grammar terms, as well as a quick activity to apply them to reading and writing.

Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

Play multiplication war, a fun card game, with your child and before long those annoying multiplication facts will be part of her mathematical skill set.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Here's an adverb acting game that will have your child hungrily, unceasingly, enthusiastically learning!

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

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Our breath can be a helpful tool to connect with a sense of peace and calm. In this home activity, your child will practice counting breaths, hear poems about nature and mindfulness, and write their own poem.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Here's a party game that's guaranteed to bring along lots of laughs. Kids get creative as they act out improve scenes with some help from an audience.