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

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

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.

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

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:

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

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

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

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:

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

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.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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

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."

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.