Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

This game turns prediction, a major component of third grade reading, into a fun game.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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!

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

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

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:

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

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.