Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Can you win a staring contest? Would your performance be influenced by your eyesight? Find out in this science fair project idea!

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

In this activity, you will create a magical box to help your child learn her letter sounds. Here's how to play the Abracadabra learning game!

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Identifying angles may sound intimidating, but with this exercise, you can turn your child into an expert angler in no time!

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.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Meant to be fun and inspiring, Oulipo N+7 challenges writers to create new writing, use language and enriches vocabulary, spelling and critical thinking.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

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.

While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

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

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.

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

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