Word up
A bestselling author offers five techniques to blast through resistance and teach kids to write.
Articles about:Second grade and writing
Create a comic book
How you can help at home: Your child will learn to create his own family comic book. This activity builds writing and computer skills.
Word family flip book
How you can help at home: Have your child create this fun flip book to practice reading.
Create a family memory book
With the help of a computer, your child can practice language arts skills as she preserves family memories.
How Can I Help With Spelling Tests?
My granddaughter is having trouble learning and remembering her spelling words. She continuously gets as many as five out of ten wrong. How can I help her?
My Child Started Reversing Letters
My daughter has been writing since before she started school and was good at it. I was a stay-at-home mom and worked with her so that when she started school she would have no problems.
Now that she has started school and I am a...
Golden Apple Awards 2010 (ages 6-8)
From a talking pen to a futuristic ant farm, these toys are made for kids' learning (and fun).
Prefix practice mis-, non-, ex-, co-, anti-
In this language arts worksheet, your child practices adding the prefixes mis-, non-, ex-, co-, and anti- to root words to create new words.
Compound words
Jig + saw = jigsaw! When two individual words can be added together to form a new word, that's a compound word. In this language arts worksheet, your child will find as many compound words as possible using a set of 15 root words.
Compound words
Some words are made up of two other words! In this language arts worksheet, your child gets practice putting together compound words such as football, playground, and pancake.
