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

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

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.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

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!

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

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

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

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.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.