Caption Collage
Challenge your child to find the best words to describe a picture. Kids' crafts activity using magazine cut-outs. Children matching pictures to text to create interesting or funny captions.

Book Central: Interactive Reading Extension Activities for Your Child
Introduces Book Central interactive reading extension activities. Kid's review books, test their knowledge, and learn about their favorite authors. Encourages at-home reading.

Mystery Writing with Joan Lowery Nixon: Writing with Writers
Online mystery writing exercise for kids, lead by author Joan Lowery Nixon. Involves reading, writing, and revision. Teaches creative writing in the mystery genre, revisions skills, and attention to detail.

Writing Prompts: Brain Boosters
Creative writing prompts that will boost your child's problem-solving skills, imagination, and creativity. With these clever writing exercises, all your child needs to get started is paper and a pen!

Online Games and Activities with Clifford the Big Red Dog
Visit the famous red dog Clifford online for stories, games, music, and more fun learning activities. These free online activities teach kids pre-reading skills, sequencing, and attention to detail.

Twisted Max Tales
Remember Mad Libs?

News Writing Workshop for Kids
Step-by-step news writing workshop. Teaches kids how to research, write, and revise a news article. Suggests publishing a famliy newspaper.

Kids Rewrite Fairytales from a New Point of View
Children tell their favorite fairytale from a different character's perspective. They write and illustrate their version. Teaches point-of-view and allows kids to put themselves in others' shoes.

Sound Box
Listen closely to hear and put together all the sounds in a word.

Fairy Tales: Writing With Writers
Explore fairy tales and fables -- some of them fractured! This online activity is a reading extension on modern fairy tales. One of those fairy tales includes The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by John Scieszka.

Make Your Own Calendar Kids' Crafts Activity
Easy-to-make wall hanging calendar. This arts and crafts activity teaches kids to connect pictures and words. Children practice sorting and organizing information.