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

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

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

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

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.

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

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

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.

Free science fair project idea that examines cheating in school-age children. Project involves a task in which children are tested on various tasks.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

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

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

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

Help your preschooler craft her very own announcement to celebrate the special transition to "big kids" school!

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Make a photo essay! This fun middle school photography activity makes creative writing come to life by turning words into pictures.

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

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.