Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

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

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.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

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

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

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

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

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.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

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