With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

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

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

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

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

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.

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:

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

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

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.