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Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

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

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

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.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

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.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

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.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

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.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

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

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.