Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

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

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

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

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 life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

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.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

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

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

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

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.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

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

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

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

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

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