Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

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

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

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

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

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

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

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

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!

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!

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.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

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

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.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

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!

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

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

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