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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

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

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

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

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!