Third graders have learned to construct simple sentences, but they are still exploring ways to make their writing more interesting and effective. This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, a classic part of third grade curriculum.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around by creating this fun, easy learning game that your child will enjoy playing!

In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to a race involving spelling patterns in words. This is one race your child will want to run again and again! And it will do wonders for her reading fluency.

Learning prefixes and suffixes is a great way to boost vocabulary quickly. And these letter combos are best learned in the context of the words that they create. Here's an easy game to get your child thinking about these beginnings and endings, in between a lot of shouting and laughing.

Kids and codes go together like dashes and dots. Teach your child Morse code, a little bit of history that she'll pick up in a flash!

Is your child a budding writer? Or does he hit a wall when starting a writing assignment? Here's a fun exercise that turns a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out writing frenzy.

Third graders have to develop whole ideas and write them down in a logical way. And you can help! Here's a technique called "storyboarding."

A great way to teach children the power of a good explanation.