Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

This St. Patrick's-themed color game reinforces your kindergartener's recognition of green objects, and also gives her reading and listening skills a work out.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

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

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

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Celebrate our founding fathers and the parchment they wrote on with this DIY scroll project.

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

Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

From a Twilight novel to required reading, kids will learn about preconceptions as they predict a book's story based on the cover.

Help cement the concept of place value with this simple activity that involves creating a set of dials made from Styrofoam cups.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Help your teen analyze "To My Mother" by Edgar Allan Poe, and then experiment with his poetry skills to create a version of his own.

This game reinforces the meaning of the term "multiples" and is fast enough to hold the attention of your fourth-grader.

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.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

This experiment investigates whether the Ranschburg Effect is observed more frequently in older or younger adults.

This experiment explores how listening in to a one-sided conversation affects concentration.

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

Turn wait time in the doctor's office or travel time in the car into fun time with your own version of I Spy.