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

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.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

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:

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

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

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

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

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!

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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!

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

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

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

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.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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

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

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

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

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

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