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

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

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

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!

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

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

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

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

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

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

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

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

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.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

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

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!

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

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

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.