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!

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

This game turns prediction, a major component of third grade reading, into a fun game.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

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

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

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

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

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

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

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

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

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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"?

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

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

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

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 writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

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