Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

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

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

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.

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!

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

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

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

This activity will have your child learning about dependent and independent clauses, not to mention the punctuation that goes in the middle.

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

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.

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

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

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

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!

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.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

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

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

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

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.