With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

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:

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

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

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.