Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

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

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

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

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

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

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

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Have your child make a giant red poppy out of tissue paper in remembrance of the brave soldiers who served, especially those who died serving their countries.

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

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.