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.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

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.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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

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

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

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"?

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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

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

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

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

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

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!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

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 compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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

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