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

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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:

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

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

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

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.