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

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 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.

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.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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