Reflect on how fast your child has grown this past year with this ruler frame craft, perfect for gift-giving!

In this cool science fair project idea, kids conduct the ruler drop test on volunteers to determine whether reaction time can be improved with practice.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

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

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.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

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

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Here's a motivational kit that lets your emerging reader know you're with him for the whole wild ride.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

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!

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!

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

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

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

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

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

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

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