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Reading activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy reading activities to help practice letters to more advanced reading skills, we've got you covered! Use the selector on the right to narrow your search by grade.

Phonics Fun: C is for Caterpillar!

Phonics Fun: C is for Caterpillar!

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills -and make for a happy afternoon on a rainy day, too.

Go Sight Word "Island Hopping"!

Go Sight Word "Island Hopping"!

All you need is chalk and some pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces those all-important first grade sight words.

Plant Your Name with Seeds!

Plant Your Name with Seeds!

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious kindergarteners. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a green and growing writing activity!

Make a "Handy" Thankgiving Wreath

Make a "Handy" Thankgiving Wreath

First grade social science curriculum includes lessons on our Thanksgiving holiday, but there's no place like home to make it come alive. Here' s an activity that expresses thanks, while sneaking in some reading and writing practice, too.

Reading The Odyssey

Reading The Odyssey

Here's a teen-friendly refresher course in the plot of the epic poem The Odyssey, as well as SAT vocabulary your teen can use to describe what happens for themselves.

Make an Abbreviation Book!

Make an Abbreviation Book!

Recognizing common abbreviations is an important component to second grade language arts. Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide a great art lesson at the same time!

Punctuate with Pasta!

Punctuate with Pasta!

This year, your second grader will need lots of practice using commas, quotation marks, periods, and question marks. Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with punctuation marks, using something straight from the cupboard... pasta!

Reading the Grapes of Wrath

Reading the Grapes of Wrath

Here's a teen-friendly refresher course in the plot of "The Grapes of Wrath", as well as SAT vocabulary your teen can use to describe what happens for his or herself.

Go on a Library Treasure Hunt!

Go on a Library Treasure Hunt!

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters. Have your child hunt for books at the library to find the library treasure hunt prize!

Write an Art-Inspired Poem

Write an Art-Inspired Poem

Create a poem that emerges from the collaboration of parent and teen in the activity of observing, discussing, reading, and writing!

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