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

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

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

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!

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

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

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

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.

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

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.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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

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

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!