Create a sun-shaped summer words chart in this DIY craft activity!

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

This simple art project will help your child think of nice words to say that come from the heart.

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

Children will learn about diversity, hear a story that reflects appreciation and acceptance of differences, and connect with a pen pal in another country through writing and drawing a letter.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

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.

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

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

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

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.

Learn all about colors with the best teachers of all -- cupcakes!

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

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!

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Your kids will love this tradition of finding a leprechaun's gold hidden all over.

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

This is a simple, nutritious food kids love for snacks and lunches all year.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

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

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.