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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   2 – 6  |  Activity & Project
   Batter Up! Telling Sports Stories With Trading Cards
   Summer is the time for baseball! Through the retelling of the 1941 baseball season, children will see two legendary players as characters and can create trading cards that highlight these players.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Activity & Project
   Can Letters Tell a Story?
   Shake up children's summer reading by introducing them to new and fun formats for storytelling.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Create Trading Cards for Favorite Characters
   Use the online Trading Card Creator tool to have children make cards describing their favorite characters from the books on their reading list.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Digging for Answers: Become a Dinosaur Word Detective
   Scientists have been making dinosaur discoveries for a long, long time. Explore this mysterious world by reading about dinosaurs, solving a crossword puzzle, and building your own puzzle.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 3  |  Activity & Project
   Summer Discoveries
   Recapture exciting discoveries by writing poetry about summer adventures.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Telling My Story: Make a Bio-Cube
   Let children explore an interesting subject—themselves. An online tool will teach them to summarize and organize information as they write.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Write a Recipe
   Use recipes to help children practice reading and writing step-by-step instructions. Have them sample the results to see how they did.
8. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Write "Moving" Sports Poetry
   We've all heard the expression "poetry in motion"-this activity gets children writing poems about grace and movement using photos of athletes.
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Write Theme Poems
   Use shape and theme poems, or poems that look like the things they describe, as a fun way to introduce children to poetry.