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Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

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!

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.