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

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

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!

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

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

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

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

Make a photo essay! This fun middle school photography activity makes creative writing come to life by turning words into pictures.

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

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

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.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.