1st and 2nd Grade Reading Activities

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

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.

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 learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

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

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!

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

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

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

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:

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.

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!

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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

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.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

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

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

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.

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

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

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.