Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

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

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

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

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

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

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.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

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

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

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.

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

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

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

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

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.

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

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!

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

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

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

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.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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.