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

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

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

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

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.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

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.

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

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.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

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

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.

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

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.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.