Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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:

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

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

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

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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.

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

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

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

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

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