Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

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.

Create a sun-shaped summer words chart in this DIY craft activity!

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Prepare your child for winter with a fake igloo and a list of cozy and chilly vocabulary words.

This simple art project will help your child think of nice words to say that come from the heart.

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:

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

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!

Take a fun and simple look at the concept of parallel lines with your child. This art activity is great for fine motor skills and perfect for Valentine's Day!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

In this activity, children will write letters to their future selves and draw encouraging pictures. These letters will be given to back to them at a future time when they are in need of some encouragement and kind reminders.

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

In this activity, your child will write and draw about a time when they acted in ways that illustrated responsibility, kindness, or integrity. They will also reflect on what it felt like to have control over their choices and behaviors.

In this activity, you and your child will practice taking a movement or calming break during homework or when feeling tired. Then, your child will write about and draw what the experience was like for them.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f