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:

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!

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

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.

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

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.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

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

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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

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

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

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

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

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

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

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.

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:

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

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.

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

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

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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