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

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.

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

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

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

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!

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

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

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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

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

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

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

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!

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

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.

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

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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

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

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

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.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

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.