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

Invite your first grader to play this subtraction sacks game to get her actively involved in understanding and memorizing subtraction facts.

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with this outdoor group ball game that's similar to Four Square.

Before hitting the road this summer, arm yourself with Straight Face, a game guaranteed to turn bored frowns into happy grins and giggles.

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!

Practice problem solving skills with your kindergarten or first grade student in this fun connect-the-dots game!

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

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.

This twist on the same old Hide and Seek is a great weekend or rainy-day activity.

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!

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.