Grammar and Mechanics Activities

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

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 a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

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

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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

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

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

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

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

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!

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

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 fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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!

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

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

Help your child develop her letter recognition skills throughout the week leading up to Valentineâs Day with this simple activity.