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

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

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!

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

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

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

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

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.

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

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.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

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

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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.

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

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

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

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

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.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

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

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