Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

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

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

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.

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

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

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

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

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

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

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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

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

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."