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Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

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

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

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.

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.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense 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:

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

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

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

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!

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!

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Here's an easy project: create a homework helper bookmark so your fourth grader can write down assignments and mark the pages he needs to read.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!