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.

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

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

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.

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

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

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

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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!

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

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!