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Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

Explore scientific concepts with this experiment that introduces kids to the scientific method!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

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

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!

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

Combine an introduction to shape and counting with a springtime art project by showing your kindergartener how to create a vibrant rainbow mosaic.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

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

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

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

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

Practice counting with this winter kindergarten art project! As your child sculpts a clay igloo, he will work on math and dexterity and learn about snow.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

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.

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