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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!

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.

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

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.

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

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:

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

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!

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.

Does your child know how to read a map? Teach this important skill with an activity that makes map reading and map creating practical and fun!

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

What would it be like to be the Cat in the Hat from the famous Dr. Seuss book? This Read Across America project has your 1st grader making his own fun-in-a-box!

In this activity, you and your child will read a story about heartfulness, practice heartfulness by sending kind wishes to others, and draw pictures of those you both love and care for (such as family members, friends, or pets).

Kids can jazz up their checker sets by transforming boring round checker pieces into baby chicks and eggs in this 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Try this fun math card game with your third grader to practice division, addition, and problem solving!

It's easy to turn old magazines into a fast-and-furious finding game that's both fun and educational for kids.

Here's a motivational kit that lets your emerging reader know you're with him for the whole wild ride.

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

Pureed ripe peaches, vanilla yogurt, agave nectar, and juicy chunks of peach come together to form a refreshing pop that hits the spot on a hot summer day.

Make mom feel like the star that she truly is by holding a movie premiere in her honor, complete with red carpet!

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

Perform a special St. Patrick's Day magic trick with this fun craft project! 

Get in the 4th of July spirit by whipping up a batch of frosty snow cones, sweetened with syrup in a patriotic palette.

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.

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.

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

Use painted pasta to create your very own ancient Egyptian necklace.