Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

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.

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

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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

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

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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

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.

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.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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!

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.