Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

This game turns prediction, a major component of third grade reading, into a fun game.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

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

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

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

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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 activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

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

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

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

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

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.