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Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Social networking sites that promote reading, reviewing books, and sharing books with others are springing up all over, making reading fun again.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Here's a fun game to practice strategies for acing the Reading Comprehension section of the SAT.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Here's a motivational kit that lets your emerging reader know you're with him for the whole wild ride.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Your middle schooler's favorite book is being made into a motion picture, and she's the chosen designer. Help her create a movie poster to entice viewers.

Who remembers their ancient Greek history? Here's a teen-friendly refresher course in the epic poem The Odyssey, as well as SAT vocabulary your teen can use.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

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

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

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