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

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

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

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

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

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.

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.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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.

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

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

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

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

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

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

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.