Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

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.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

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.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

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.

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

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.

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

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

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

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.