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

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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

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

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!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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:

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

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!

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

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"?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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