Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

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

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

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

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

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.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

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.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

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.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

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

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

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

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

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how: