Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

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.

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

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

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:

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

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

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

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

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

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

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.