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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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

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

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.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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

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