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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

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

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.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

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

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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.

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

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

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!

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

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

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

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.