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

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.

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

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

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

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.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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

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!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

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

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

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

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.