Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

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.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

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."

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

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

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

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.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

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.

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:

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

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

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

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f