Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

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

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

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

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.

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

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!

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

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

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.

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.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

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

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.

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.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

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

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

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

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

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.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

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.