Act out a story after reading it. Work together to create a script and make costumes and props. Then invite others to watch and hear your story!
When you plant a garden, involve children in the process by writing down questions and observations on the garden's growth in a garden journal.
Children will learn their address and phone number to help keep them safe.
Children love books that rhyme and to create their own rhymes. It's a fun way to learn how words sound similar to one another!
Get children excited about writing and descriptive language by creating yummy descriptions of their favorite candy.
Encourage children to connect words and pictures by having them write their own captions for family or magazine photos.
Writing stories that imitate a certain genre or type of fiction allows children to explore a book they love by imagining new twists for their favorite characters and plot lines.
Share a fun book about staying safe and then talk about real-life safety issues before writing a letter to someone in your community who can help.
Boost vocabulary by taking an imaginary trip into space. After a lunar "landing," children return to Earth with a galaxy of new words.
Choose favorite rhyming songs or nursery rhymes then replace the rhyming words with seasonal themes.
Find three fun online games that are designed to help children learn to recognize letters and how they sound.
Engage teens in this activity in which they use photographs to examine and write about courage on a blog.
Invite teens to explore issues that are important to them, and then write a script and film a video public service announcement.
In this activity teens are encouraged to explore their reading history as they remember books they liked reading as children and then revisit these old favorites.
Explore how music can have an emotional impact on a scene in a movie, then help teens write and film a scene of their own.
This activity invites children and teens to explore various careers and then write about what they might want to be when they grow up in a blog.
Let children practice using different types of words in a fill-in-the-blank-story game before making their own word list for a magnetic poetry set.
Help children use favorite photos to write a homemade memory book.
From dishes to doors, find shapes all around you while strengthening important reading and math skills.
After reading If You Give a Moose a Muffin, have a "Muffin Party"! Children will write invitations, follow a recipe, and enjoy sharing their homemade muffins.