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!

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

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

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

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

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