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

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

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

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.

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 kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

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

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

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

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

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

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

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

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

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

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

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

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

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.

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!