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This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

In this activity, your kid will cut rectangles, circles and triangles to create a portrait of the jolliest man of them all: Santa Claus!

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

Show your teen how to create silly limericks--cheery comic verses that probably originated in Limerick, Ireland--of her own.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

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

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Lacing is a great way to practice hand-eye coordination, which helps with writing. Turn it into a fun preschool art project, by stringing up some ABCs!

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.