With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

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.

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

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

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!

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

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

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.

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

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

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

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

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

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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!

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:

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

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.