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

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

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.

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

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

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.

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.

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

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

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.

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

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

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

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.

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

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

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

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.

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

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

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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

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.

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.

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

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