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.

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

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.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

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.

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

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

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!

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

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

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

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

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

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.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Creating a family newspaper is a great way to teach your child the characteristics of a newspaper article, give him or her some excellent writing practice.

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

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

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

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

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

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

This science fair project idea explores whether a person's ability to see under very dim lighting conditions diminishes with age.