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

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

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:

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

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

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

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.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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

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.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

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

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

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