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!

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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!

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

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

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

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.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

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

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

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:

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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

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!

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

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

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

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

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!