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

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

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

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

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 create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

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

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

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.

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

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.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

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

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

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

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.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

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

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

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

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

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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

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

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

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

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.

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