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

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

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!

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.

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

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

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

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!

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.