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

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!

Confused about clauses? Get the concept to stick by helping your middle schooler make mix-and-match poetry dice filled with independent and dependent clauses.

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

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

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

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

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

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

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

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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

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

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

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.