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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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!