To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

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

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

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

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

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.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

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

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.

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

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

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

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.

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

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Draw letter people with your child to help her take a closer look at the letters, and see the differences between them.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

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

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

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

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

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.