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.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

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

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.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

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

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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.

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!

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

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

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! 

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

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!

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

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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

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

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.