Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

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

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

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.

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

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

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

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

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

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

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

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 with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

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

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

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