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

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.