Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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

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

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.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

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

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

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

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

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

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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

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.

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

Multiplication facts are a necessary skill, and this board game provides a fun way for your third grader to practice them!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

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

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.

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

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.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

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