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.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

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

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

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

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.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

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

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!