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

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!

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

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

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

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

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

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

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

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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!

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

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.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

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.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

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!

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.