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

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

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!

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.

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.

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

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

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

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.

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

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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

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

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

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

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

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

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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.

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

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

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.

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