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"?

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.

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

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.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

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

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

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

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!

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.

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:

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

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

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

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

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

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.

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

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

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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

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

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

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.

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.

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

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.