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.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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