These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

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.

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

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

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

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

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

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.