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Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

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

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

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

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

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

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

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

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

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

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

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

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

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

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

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

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

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

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

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!