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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

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.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

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!

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.

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.

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

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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.

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

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

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

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

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

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

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.

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.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.