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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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

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

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

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

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.

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 fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

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

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

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