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.

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

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.

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.

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

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

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

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

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!

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

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

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

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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.

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:

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.

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.