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Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

This project examines whether playing music during class helps students learn or if it distracts students from learning.

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.

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

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Give your child a glimpse of how another set of students approach reading by teaching him how the blind use braille.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Being present is essential for learning, so help your child become more aware of their body and surroundings through an activity called "mindful walking."

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

What causes sound? Here's a simple science experiment that adds a visual element to the science of sound to help kids better understand this tricky concept.

Here's a review of some common (and commonly confused) grammar terms, as well as a quick activity to apply them to reading and writing.

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

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

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

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

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.