Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

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

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

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

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

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

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!

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!

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

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

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

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.