Learning Activities

This School Readiness Activity provides early literacy thinking experiences for preschool children that will prepare them to do well in the early grades.

Use these activities to encourage your child's writing so that she'll enjoy putting her thoughts on paper.

Play this nursery-rhyme riddle game to help your child build language skills.

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This early reading activity helps children learn the letters of the alphabet by tracing them in shaving cream.

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This early reading activity helps children learn the letters of the alphabet by feeling them!

Should a three-and-a-half-year-old know colors and numbers?

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In this activity, your child will learn to recognize the letters of the alphabet.

Here's expert advice on how to make learning letters a fun activity.

Show your child how to take an old aquarium and turn it into a terrarium -- complete with plants and insects!

Help your child learn about his senses as he has fun smelling, touching, and tasting his way toward solving clues.

From the Industrial Revolution to the rise of the World Wide Web, we take a look back at the 20th Century with these quizzes.

This article offers some tips to help your child develop their writing skills.

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Here's what you can do to prevent your child's brain drain over the long summer vacation.

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Drawing with rice helps your child learn letters and numbers.

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Your grandma's pink purse...could go into your verse! Here is a poetry-writing exercise for all ages.

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Your child can cut and paste a great literary work with this activity.

The ingredients for this activity include consonants, vowels, and a generous supply of spelling skills.

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If your newspaper stories suddenly separated themselves from their headlines, how would you read the paper?