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

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

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!

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

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

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.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

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

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.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

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.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

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

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.