Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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

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

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

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!

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

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

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.

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

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.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

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

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

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

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

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

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

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

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!