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

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

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:

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

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.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

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

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.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing 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!

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

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.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

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

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!