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Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

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

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Will storing cucumbers and tomatoes in the fridge destroy their unique flavors? Find out in this science fair project idea!

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

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

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

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

This reading activity combines some of the most common sight words with a pictograph puzzle that's sure to keep your kindergartener engaged.

Have a blast celebrating the poetic prose of Dr. Seuss as you hop your way to better vocabulary and reading skills. Play Hop on Pop Hopscotch!

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Our breath can be a helpful tool to connect with a sense of peace and calm. In this home activity, your child will practice counting breaths, hear poems about nature and mindfulness, and write their own poem.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.