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Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

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.

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.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Make a phonics paper egg to help your child build up his reading and writing skills.

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

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

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

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

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.

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

Children will reflect on the importance of diversity and brainstorm ways to support people in their community who may feel alone, researching local organizations that strive to help those people.

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

Create a sun-shaped summer words chart in this DIY craft activity!

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 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.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

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.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

In this arts and crafts activity, you can make fun bracelets using just a handful of buttons and some elastic cord. And it's a counting game, too!