Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

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

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

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.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

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

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.