Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

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

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

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.

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.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound 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!

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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 child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

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

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

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.