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

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

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

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

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

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

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.

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

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

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

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

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

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.