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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

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

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

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.