Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

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:

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

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

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

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

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

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!