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 cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

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

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

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

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

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.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

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.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

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.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

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

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!