Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

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

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

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.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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! 

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

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

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

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

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

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

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

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

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

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.