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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

Here's an adverb acting game that will have your child hungrily, unceasingly, enthusiastically learning!

Discover how and which salt melts ice the quickest.

Get your creative kid into tasseography! The ancient art of reading tea leaves gets a modern update in this simplified version for youthful fortune tellers!

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

In this arts and crafts activity, you and your child will create colorful three-dimensional artwork using scrunched-up fabric pieces.

Perform a special St. Patrick's Day magic trick with this fun craft project! 

Want to play publisher for a day? Become a book jacket illustrator for this creative and fun project.

The proportion game combines chance with math skills and is a perfect way for your third grader to become more familiar with equivalent fractions.

This activity with add some fun and education to long car trips. Perfect for family vacations!

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Make environmentally friendly, chemical-free toothpaste using one of the most common, inexpensive pantry staples in the American kitchen: baking soda.