Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

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.

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

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

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.

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

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.

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.

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!

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

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

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.

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

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

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