This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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

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

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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

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

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

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

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

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.

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."