In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

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

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

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

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

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

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

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:

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!