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!

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.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

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

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

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

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

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.

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.

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