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

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

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

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.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

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

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

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.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

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

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

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.

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

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

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:

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

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

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

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

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

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.