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

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

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

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

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

The project determines which laundry detergent is best for cleaning clothes.

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.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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.

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.

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

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

Greek mythology offers up some of the most epic tales ever. This Greek mythology tree activity introduces students to some of the main characters in Greek mythology.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

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.