These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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!

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 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.

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!

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.

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!

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

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

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

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

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

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

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.

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

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