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

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

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.

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.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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!

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!