This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

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.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

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

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

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

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

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

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

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!