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

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.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

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

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

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

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

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

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.

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!

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!

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

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

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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

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

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

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.

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

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.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.