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

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

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

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

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

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.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

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.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

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.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

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.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

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

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

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

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

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