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

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.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

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.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

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

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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!

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

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.

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.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

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.

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 child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

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

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.

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

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

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.