It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

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.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of 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.

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

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

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

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

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

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!