This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

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!

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

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

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

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

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

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!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

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

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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

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!

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

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

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

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.