This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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.

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.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

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

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

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:

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.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

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

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

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

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

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