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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

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

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

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

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

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

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