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!

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.

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!

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

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.

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!

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!

Perform a special St. Patrick's Day magic trick with this fun craft project! 

Try a fun Mother's Day game for moms and kids to play together!