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

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

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

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

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

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

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

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

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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

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

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

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

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!