This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

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

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

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

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.

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!

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

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

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

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

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

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.

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

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:

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

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

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

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

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

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!