1st Grade Spelling Activities

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

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

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

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

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

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.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

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

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.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create his own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.