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.

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

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 use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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

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.

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

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

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

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.

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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.

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

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! 

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

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.