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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

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.

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

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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!

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

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

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

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!

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.

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

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.

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

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.