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!

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

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

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

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

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

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

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.

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.

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:

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

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

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

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

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

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

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

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!

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!

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