Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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

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

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

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

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

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

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

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

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

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

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:

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

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"?

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

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.

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!

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.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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

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

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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

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