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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.

Are you ready to be a detective for science? Then get out your magnifying glass and start studying fingerprints!

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

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

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

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.

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

Help your first grader understand what a noun is with this fun photo book that catalogs her favorite people, places, and things!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

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

Transform a simple menu into a work of art! Let your child unleash her inner artist on tonight's menu for a beautiful display that the whole family can enjoy.

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

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.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

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.

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

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

Here are three easy, budget-friendly ways to preserve your child's work and precious memories without filling up the attic.

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.

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

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

Camouflage is one of the most important animal adaptations in the African savanna biome. Kids create their own camouflage with this fun science fair project.