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!

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:

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

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

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

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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.

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!