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

Basic Reading Comprehension

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!

Play Story Ball: A Reading Comprehension Game

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

Questions, Anyone? Ask Your Way to Reading Comprehension

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.

Make a Reading Bookmark!

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

Wanted Poster

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

Create a Story Summary Folder

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

What is a Character Trait?

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

Story Sequencing Activity

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

Make a Family Cookbook

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Make a Santa "Wish List" Holder

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

Understanding Headers and Subheaders

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

String Story Necklaces

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!

Draw a Fairy Tale Map

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Play Picture Book Charades!

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

Rock Painting: Retell a Story

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.

Papier-Mâché Characters

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.

Table of Contents Treasure Hunt

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!

Valentine Party Blower Messages

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Rocket Like Mae Jemison

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.

A Special Gift from Grandpa

Greek mythology offers up some of the most epic tales ever. This Greek mythology tree activity introduces him to some of the main characters in Greek mythology.

Greek Mythology Tree

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

Make a Valentine Lollypop Greeting

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

Fairy Tale Rebus

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:

Make a "Today Is" Poster

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:

Write Pen Pal Postcards

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

Gratitude Tree 

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

Write a Thanksgiving Day Poem

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Write a Safety Rules Manual

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

Father's Day Pop-Up Card

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