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

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

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

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!

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

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.

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.

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

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math 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!

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

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

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

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

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:

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.

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

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

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

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.

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

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

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

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!

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

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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.

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.

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"?