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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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 activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

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

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

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!

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.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

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