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

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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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

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

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

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!

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

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