This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

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.

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

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

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!