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For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

How would you dry your wet clothes if your dryer didn't work? Find out with this fun experiment!

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Get ready to make a dollar...using playing cards! The first player to accumulate the amount of points equal to a dollar wins.

Grab some rope and a couple of rafts and you're ready to play Rope Rush, an exciting race game for the pool!

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Ready for a game that's mostly about strategy with a little luck thrown in for good measure? Make math fact practice exciting and start rolling the dice!

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

Is cleaning with lemon effective? Get ready to give this science project some elbow grease and find out if acidic lemons can be used as a cleaning agent.

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Washi Ningyo, otherwise known as Japanese paper dolls, make fantastic bookmarks! Encourage your child to read more with this delightful, origami-inspired doll.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

Here's an easy project: create a homework helper bookmark so your fourth grader can write down assignments and mark the pages he needs to read.

Watch pre-packaged seeds and seeds taken from inside fruits and vegetables grow. Which ones will grow faster? Read more in this science fair project idea.

Your child will reflect on the term "beauty" and the things they are grateful for. They will read the book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and reflect on how focusing on the small and big things of beauty around them can benefit themselves and others.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Encourage your child to learn about air pressure by helping him devise his own squirt gun with a water bottle.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

To practice place value, here's a fun hands-on activity to get your child flipping through place value with ease!

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!