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

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!

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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