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These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

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

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

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

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

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.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

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

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

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

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

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

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

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.