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

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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

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

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

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

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

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

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

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

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

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.

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.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

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.

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

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

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!

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

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

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!

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!