Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

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

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

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

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:

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

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

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

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!

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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

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