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Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

How to Write a Scary Story

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Practice Language Skills with a Dance Map!

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Write Santa Claus-Themed Alliteration

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Code Cracker

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

Make a Wish Box

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

Rudolph the Red Nosed Mad Libs!

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

Punctuate with Pasta!

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

Make an Illustrated Vocabulary Book!

Helping your child learn to read doesn&#39;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!

Nonsense Book

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. 

Parts of Speech Fall Scavenger Hunt

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Make Clay Idioms a "Piece of Cake"!

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

Build Vocabulary by Breaking it Down!

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Write a New Ending

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Guess What? A Writing Game

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Write a Diamante Poem

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this  exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Write Parts of Speech Acrostic Poetry!

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

Make a "Word Slider"

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Play the Bag Game: Learn Parts of Speech

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

Practice Capitalization with a Homemade Calendar

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!

The Build-a-Word Card Game: Better than Go Fish!

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

Fall Syllable Game

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Octopus Love

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

Write Silly Sentences to Master Verb Tenses

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Make an Apostrophe Collage

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!

Win the Pangram Competition

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

Vocabulary Game

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Root Out the Meaning of Words

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Make an Advertisement

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Stretch and Say: A Reading Activity

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

ABC Treasure Hunt

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