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Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

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

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

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

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!

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

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

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

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

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

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

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

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.