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.

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!

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

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!

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

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

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

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

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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

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.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

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

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

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.