How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

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!

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!

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing 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.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

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!

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

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.

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!

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

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!

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!