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

Create a sun-shaped summer words chart in this DIY craft activity!

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

This simple art project will help your child think of nice words to say that come from the heart.

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

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

Add a smattering of beachy fun to a regular paper plate with this simple and adorable seashell craft!

Create a little magic with this special craft that transforms a regular paper tree into a Valentine masterpiece.

Winter is a great time to build a friendly snowman! Turn regular modeling clay into a glittery snowy surprise.

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

Kids get in lots of letter learning as they play this fun twist on regular tag, which engages their minds as well as their bodies.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

Help your child make sense of our colorful world with this easy-to-make color challenge!

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

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!

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

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!

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

Picking words out can be tricky. In this early reading activity, your child will place letter markers on a grid to make words appear out of the jumble.

Rhymes are all around us! Get your kid in on this game of simple rhyming words. She'll match up cards with rhyming words and pictures on them.

Practicing letters and words by writing them out is all well and good, but spelling out your practice words with old puzzle pieces is a lot more fun!

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

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.