Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Playing doctor is not only fun, it's also a way to teach kids about the parts of the body and how they are spelled.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Here's a quick look at the Hamlet, the classic Shakespearean tragedy, as well as useful SAT vocabulary to give your teen a leg up in English class and beyond.

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Discover whether the color of text correlates with ease and speed of reading.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Start a kids' reading club in your neighborhood to enhance your child's literacy and social skills.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Breathe new life into a battered old paperback with this creative book art craft that revolves around reading!

Make a phonics paper egg to help your child build up his reading and writing skills.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!