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

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

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

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

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

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

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

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!

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

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

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

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, children reflect on what it means to be caring and to show kindness to others through drawing and performing a kind act of their choosing.

In this activity, help your kindergartener develop sequencing skills with these easy story sequence cards

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Celebrate the new year by making a memory book with your child! You'll reinforce time and calendar concepts and you'll get to reminisce about the past year.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.