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.

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

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.

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

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!

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

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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:

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

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

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

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

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!

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

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!