Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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

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.

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.

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

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.

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

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.

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

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