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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.

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.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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!

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.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

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

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

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!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

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

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

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

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 children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."