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Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Help your child find a creative way to say "I love you" with this sign language card that she can give to someone special in her life.

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

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

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

An "I Love You" book is a perfect gift for a very special friend on Valentine's Day. Our "I Love You" book shares the love in eight different languages.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide an opportunity for her to exercise her artistic abilities.

To make this unique Valentine's Card, all your child will need is his creative mind, some paper, and a pencil.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Homophones are those tricky little words that tend to confound early learners. Help your second grader ace the challenge with this outdoor game.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Take a closer look at your furry friend (or the furry friend of a neighbor -- with permission) to discover if communication exists between cats and humans.

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

In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to race, involving spelling patterns in words.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

Here's an idea for an edible Father's Day "note" that also happens to give your second grader practice in using a fancy new tool: the thesaurus.

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!