Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

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

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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.

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

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

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.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

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.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

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

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.