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

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

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!

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

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.

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.

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

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

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.

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'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.

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!

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

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

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

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

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.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!