Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

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 third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

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!

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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

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