Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

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

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Which battery lasts the longest? In this science fair project, kids will test popular brand name batteries like Duracell and Energizer against generic brands.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

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

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.