This brain teaser challenges your fifth grader to unscramble some specialized Winter Olympics language.

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

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

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!

What better way to show someone you love them than by telling them? This hair band craft features the American Sign Language sign for âI Love You.â

This fun and easy quiz show game will help your fifth grader memorize and study vocabulary from their math, science, social studies, and language arts classes!

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

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

Explore the world from your own home by conducting research about other cultures with your 4th grade child.

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

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

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

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

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 himself!

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!

To pay tribute to the ancient Mexican art of mosaics, your child can craft a colorful mosaic using old magazines, a paper plate and lots of imagination.

Using low-tech supplies and a little extra ingenuity you can help your fourth grader create this unique, heartfelt Valentine card.

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.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

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!

Is your fifth grader trying overnight camp this summer? If so, prepare your child for writing a letter home with this activity!

Want to help make studying the nervous system a little more fun? This thinking cap is a great way to learn external human brain anatomy.

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!

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

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

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.