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.

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.

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

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:

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

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!

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