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Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

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.

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.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

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.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

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

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

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

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

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.

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

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

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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 this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!