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

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

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

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

Picking words out can be tricky. In this early reading activity, your child will place letter markers on a grid to make words appear out of the jumble.

Rhymes are all around us! Get your kid in on this game of simple rhyming words. She'll match up cards with rhyming words and pictures on them.

Practicing letters and words by writing them out is all well and good, but spelling out your practice words with old puzzle pieces is a lot more fun!

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

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!

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

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

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to race, involving spelling patterns in words.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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

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

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

Craft a winter words alphabet book to celebrate this chilly season in this preschool-kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

This reading activity combines some of the most common sight words with a pictograph puzzle that's sure to keep your kindergartener engaged.

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

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Improve your kindergartener's vocabulary with this fun, quick, and simple improvisation activity! He'll love acting while practicing directionality words.

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?