Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

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

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!

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

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

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

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

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.

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

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

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.

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

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

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

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.