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

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

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!

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."

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.

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.

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.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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.

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

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

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

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

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

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

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

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

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

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.