Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

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.

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

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Make “teal the new orange” this Halloween season! Help your child learn about the Teal Pumpkin Project and paint the color teal on a pumpkin to advertise that your family will offer non-food toys as a treat, or “trinket” option.

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.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

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

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Transform a simple menu into a work of art! Let your child unleash her inner artist on tonight's menu for a beautiful display that the whole family can enjoy.

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

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

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

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

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

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

Here are three easy, budget-friendly ways to preserve your child's work and precious memories without filling up the attic.

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 an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

Camouflage is one of the most important animal adaptations in the African savanna biome. Kids create their own camouflage with this fun science fair project.