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

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

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.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

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!

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

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.

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

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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