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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.
Play Punctuation Red Light, Green Light
Punctuation
First Grade
Get your kindergartener story-telling in this arts and crafts activity by making Character Cubes which can help improve your child's reading and writing skills.
Tell a Story with Character Cubes!
Building Sentences
Kindergarten
Invite your middle school writer to make this artistic trip diary, and practice narrative prose and analytical writing in the process!
Travel Diary
Composition
Middle School
This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.
Content Clues: Writing with Pictures
Building Sentences
Kindergarten
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.
Play the Bag Game: Learn Parts of Speech
Grammar
Third Grade
Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.
Play Antonym-Synonym Tic-Tac-Toe
Composition
Second Grade
Pasta makes a good dinner, but it can also be used to teach proper letter formation! In this easy crafts activity, you'll use pasta and glue to form letters.
Play with Pasta...and Learn to Write
Letters
Kindergarten
Your first grader or preschooler will love this arts and crafts activity. Write an 'invisible' message in white crayon, then paint over it to reveal the secret!
Write Secret Messages
Fine Motor Skills
Letters
Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.
Kid Reporter
Essay Writing
Fifth Grade
Creating a family newspaper is a great way to teach your child the characteristics of a newspaper article, give him or her some excellent writing practice.
Get the Scoop! Create a Family Newspaper
Composition
Middle School
Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.
Make a Dialogue Journal!
Composition
Second Grade
Next time your second grader needs to send a card, consider this goofy writing and craft project.
Creative Creature Pop-Up Card
Composition
Second Grade
This recipe makes rice crispy treats, wrapped like giant chocolate kisses, and it gives preschool and kindergarten kids a reason to practice writing, too!
Rice Krispie Treats
Building Words
Preschool
Fresh out of writing prompt ideas? Explore 9 fun creative writing activities with your 3rd grader, and in no time he'll be ready to take on the challenges of back to school.
3rd Grade Writing Practice (9)
Composition
Third Grade
Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle that will fine tune your child's motor skills!
Fine Motor Activities
Fine Motor Skills
Preschool

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